Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Have you tried contacting the Naval Institute?
No, just NWC. Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try.
Have you tried contacting the Naval Institute?
Well, I suppose no one would have known, but why would we have kept such an event secret? We all thought it was funny, including the lead, and more importantly, he was the type of aviator who believed that carrier aviation was safer when we all shared our "mistakes made" and "lessons learned". Nobody was ever in danger and his skin was just as thick as anybody else's.How would anyone in the Readyroom have known unless someone from the flight told them?
About the only book out there is Lisle Rose's The Ship That Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the War. My copy was published on 1995 by the Naval Institute Press.No, just NWC. Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try.
Amazing that these class of ships were able to charge the battleships and cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Samar - and some actually survived.
“ In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in those two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar ”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII, Leyte
New Year's Day. The world's oldest commissioned vessel: USS Constitution.
The oldest commissioned warship still afloat, the HMS Victory is older but in permanent dry dock.
Care to guess the US Navy's second oldest ship? She is also a museum.
The Germans sure could build pretty ships. Good thing for us they decided to waste the sailors, steel, and time on building capital ships vice more U-boats.Battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck. The mere threat of this monster led to the decision to scatter convoy PQ-17 resulting in the loss of most of that entire convoy. For perspective, her 8 x 15" rifles were throwing shells that weighed 1764 lbs - for perspective, the Iowas 9 x 16" main guns launched shells approaching 2,700 lbs.
An extra inch DOES matter. At least that what she said…Battleship Tirpitz…her 8 x 15" rifles were throwing shells that weighed 1764 lbs - for perspective, the Iowas 9 x 16" main guns launched shells approaching 2,700 lbs.