The USS Washington was offered to the state of Washington as a museum piece but the state declined the offer. The North Carolina was saved in...
Thank you for showing this. My father was a gun captain on the USS Washington throughout the entire war. When the Navy announced that they...
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan could claim some of the best pilots on the planet. They already had years of experience in China...
While my mother knew of the story I never knew of it until just before my father died. My father was a gun captain in the 3# turret of the U.S.S....
I did read a story once about a Finnish office who once fought a Russian tank with his pistol. He fought it for some 20 minutes or so before the...
Churchill mentions it in his 6 volume "History of the Second World War". It may have been a mutual defense pact. But the invasion of Finland...
Very interesting. Thank you for posting. At one time I had several Finnish rifles. 3 M39's, an M91 with a Tikka Barrel, an M28 anM27 and a...
He was in the 4th Coastal Defense Battalion at that time. His gun was one of the ones that took a shot at the Japanese submarine that surfaced to...
I don't think that he was referring to the Curtis P40 Warhawk, It would make no sense in this instance.
Yes, my father was William Paul Weidert. He was a gun captain in the #3 turret. It turns out that Washington's claims of hits on the Kirishima...
My father entered the navy in March of 1941 for 6 years. He spent his whole enlistment serving on the USS Washington. (BB56). My father in law...
Truman simply had to drop the bomb. Doing so saved the lives tens of thousands of American soldiers and sailors and millions of Japanese. We...
Technology at the time was all tubes, motors and incandescent lighting. None of these are really suseptable to EMP's. To a tube, and EMP is...
Been a history buff for as long as I can remember. My father served in the US Navy from March 1941 to March 1947. He enlisted becasue there were...
