and, indeed, why are you telling the world, much less everyone in Poland with a shovel, where to go? And just how did you come to this information?
Tell you what - You give me, oh, say, $500,000 and I will use that pursue a diligent search for gold buried with a train in Richmond VA. If I...
During Operation Dragoon, I believe, the Marine detachments from the cruisers Philadelphia and Augusta went ashore at Marseilles and accept the...
No Marines on the Yangtze gunboats except maybe as passengers, even then under orders and not assigned to the boat for duty. As Lou said, Marine...
First time I fired a BAR I was in 8th grade circa 1965-66 . . . it was literally a blast. Not on a range, but at sea and off the fantail of USS...
Hate to be a party pooper casting ice cold water about, but I don't see a Joseph Norman "Jack" Holder amongst my list of 51,000 USN aviators and I...
Not to mention, squeezed in there, is apparently a shot of what looks to be an Omaha class light cruiser, perhaps USS Marblehead.
My handy Oxford Dictionary reports that "Dead Reckoning" first appears in 1613.
Still have some rations stamps around here somewhere, though without going box diving, they may be just for gas rationing.
And the Gunny is always right, right?
"Dead" reckoning . . . as in "you reckon right or you are dead."
I don't usually comment on things ETO, but WOW!
And the glaring problem with all what ifs . . . suppose, as the OP wishes, the Japanese actually embark on a carriers before all path? Does the...
The USN flight training program produce some 65,900 flyers between January 1939 and December 1945. Of these roughly 12,000 were Marines, 600...
No offense meant. but I tend not to follow threads that deal with USS Langley as "CV-1; " her designation, and indeed, reconfiguration, as AV-3...
When my father had Ranger (CVA-61) I remember standing on the flight deck and looking across the pier into the bridge of the Coral Sea. Talk...
One of my brother rats from VMI, Tom Parker, was captain of the Kitty Hawk 2003-2005; not bad for a guy out of a mid '70's class before the days...
The US Army has a manual for everything https://www.7tharmddiv.org/eto-unks-FM%2010-63.pdf
humph Obviously not a man of his word.
Some of us don't even have to look it up . . .
