but the bad guys were in range, the navy just was not asked to help. Coutances is only 14km from the west coast. Avranches is less than 20km....
AT1 usn ret 1972-1993
i wonder why the projectile i showed was never fired during Normandy battles. the navy just sent a couple of old battleships and they left, along...
i think at the start of the war, there were lots of super gung ho volunteers who just wanted to kill the heathen Japanese(or whatever term they...
32nd as far as i can tell had no draftees. National Guardsmen made up the Americal division which augmented then replaced 1st Marine div. on...
except for vessels like the Queen Mary, nobody did 30+ knots to transit. fuel consumption between 16 knots(a 'normal' transit speed) and 30 kts...
my uncle Roger is in one of those graves. thank you.
rereading about battle for Buna in late 1942 and can't help but see the differences between US army's poor performance at Buna and combined US...
kiddy stuff, this is a real projectile [ATTACH] at 20 miles, this could ruin your whole day. the lady is 5'4". taken at USS South Dakota memorial.
General Kenney Reports, Eichelberger's Our jungle road to tokyo, along with CMH 5-4 and CMH 5-5 to read the 'Official' version. finally 'battle...
new here. thought I would post basics of my parents and uncles service. my dad enlisted in the navy in 1942, went to what is now hospital...
hi, interesting forum. i am retired navy, son of retired navy. currently reading about sw pacific adventures, buna, lae, bismarck sea.
