I'd recommend Geirr Haarr's three volume history of Norway up through 1940. It's fairly new, the 3rd volume "The Gathering Storm" just came out...
If you're looking for a decent treatise on strategic bombing, might I suggest "Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment", edited by R. Cargill Hall....
Two Ocean War is an abridgement of the 15 volume series that FDR commissioned Morison to write. There are more modern histories of the...
Bear in mind that when the sisters were built [and the Kaga & Akagi too], the airplane was not a serious threat but the odd armored or heavy...
Normally the US, Army Air Force anyway, waited a year. I have my uncle's Purple Heart citation and death notification and they date his death as...
As I recall, a number of the -262s became casualties on their own after slowing down to take a proper shot at the B-17s. Bill
As I sit here writing on this Memorial Day reflecting on the day’s true meaning, I think in particular of a young man from rural West Tennessee....
The only ship I can even find damaged in the PI on 7/12/45 is PC-582 which grounded off Balangiga in the northern Leyte Gulf. Remember of course,...
McCabe: Any idea where your grandfather served during the War ? While the Monitor served in the Pacific, USS Natchez [PF 02] served in the...
Just a brief synopsis of US Battleships. Bill
That it is, Takao. Probably the first USN attempt to build an "affordable" fighter. Curtiss built them to NAF plans. As you say, not too...
All untrue. I saw him talking to Elvis downtown just the other day. Blondi sure is an old looking seeing eye dog. ;^) Bill
Good guess, but no. Hint #1: She's American.
[ATTACH]Tell me about the seaplane. [Bonus points if you can tell me where it is]. Bill
Looks Japanese as does the gent to the left however the RAF roundels would place it post war. Doesn't really look like a Zero so I'm guessing...
It fits nicely on a CD and now I've got something to read at work during lunch. Bill
When you look at it you'll notice that Chet did some editing, at least on the early entries, and initialled the page. Bill
The first 25 or so had the Packards but were converted to trainers for the rest of the production a/c. They were faster than the Allison...
Sara definitely wasn't too slow in the water. If I remember correctly, she was the fastest of the US WWII carriers, remember she had...
Of course the Japanese have been at War in Korea and Manchuria variously with the Chinese and Russians since at least the late 1800s. The...
