America’s entry into World War II dramatically increased the ranks of naval aviators, correspondingly expanding the requirement for instruction in operating from an aircraft carrier. Carrier qualification previously took place on board frontline ships, but with the threat of German and Japanese submarines in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the Navy looked to Lake Michigan…
Being there . . . among and on the decks of America’s most potent weapon on the world’s seas,our battleships and battlecruisers by class, ranging from the early Dreadnought-type of theSouth Carolina-class to the gigantic but never-built Montana-class, providing us a clearoverview of each ship’s career, its fate and its significance in our naval history….
The grassroots movement in 1952 to make Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower president of the United States had a winning slogan, “I like Ike,” that carried the World War II general to the White House, not only because he had proven his leadership ability during the planning of the Normandy invasion, but also because he genuinely…
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just Finished my 53rd Book Review of the Year!! The 1941 Australian Government knew that Rabaul, the Anchorage on the northern tip of the island of New Britain was important. They had taken the Island off the German Empire in WWI, and were happily exploiting the local copra trade and administering…
Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 13th Book Review of the Year!! The WWII Nazi U-boat menace had the potential to affect The British Empire existentially, while it was a lesser threat to America. Thus it will be no surprise that the British Imperial Navies Air Forces and their Free European Allies had…
Being there . . . . at the front door awaiting summer’s initial arrivals of riveting reading, knowing full well as a prescient collector it will be McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers that will deliver . . . A MAGNIFIC POTPOURRI OF PUNGENTLITERARY GEMS CULLED FROMSUBJECTS IGNORED, NEGLECTED, FORGOTTEN, OR UNKOWN BY AMERICA’S BEST PUBLISHERS…
Being there . . . . for the birth, growth, and development of the Midway Island atoll as a major20 th Century Pacific Ocean American naval base. Then, devote a few heart-throbbing hoursreading about the Battle of Midway, June 4 – 7, 1942, the turning point for our fledgling,occasionally naïve, campaign failures at the start…
Last night, film critic and aviation enthusiast Nathan Cragun, finally got to see the war movie Midway which was released a day earlier on November 8, 2019! I was super hyped about it and many people contacted me asking for a completely honest review, so here goes. The Good: Uniform and equipment accuracy was absolutely…
Emerging as a tiny, but leading independent publishing company of nonfiction titles for the academic and general markets, it has distinguished itself both nationally and internationally with daring biographies, themes and topics, often rejected by larger publishing houses due to perceived low profitability. McFarland publishes more than 350 new titles per year in print and…
“THE FIRST HELLCAT ACE”, by Cdr HAMILTON MCWHORTER III, USN (RET.). CasematePublishers, Havertown, PA. 19083: 2024, 226 pages, 70 b&w unpublished photos, 6 ¼” x 9 ¼”,hardback, $34.95. Visit, www.casematepublishers.com.No greater Introduction could alert the reading World War II enthusiast-buff better than thefollowing publicity lead-in written in 2001 when the initial version of “The First…
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