An American Author Answers Americans Asking, “When can we go back to America?” Reviewed and Recommended by Don DeNevi “When Can We Go Back to America?”, by Susan Kamei, Foreword by Secretary Norman Y, Mineta. Simon & Schuster; 736 pp, Amazon $20.49. By the time the few antiaircraft guns protecting the airways over the Hawaiian…
HOW THE ATLANTIC CHARTER WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHJILL, BUT STRANGELY NEVER SIGNED, SAVED DEMOCRACY FROM HITLER, MUSSOLINI, AND TOJO A book reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “Roosevelt and Churchill – The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941”, by Michael Kluger & Richard Evans. Frontline Books, dist. Naval Institute Press: 203 pages, hc; $37.95….
Reviewed and recommended by Don DeNevi“BATTLESHIP ALABAMA”, by Daniel Roger. A Naval History Special Edition, U.S. Naval InstitutePress: 2022, 109 pages, 9”x11”, softcover; $29.95. Visit, www.usni.org.“SILVER STATE DREADNOUGHT – – The Remarkable Story of Battleship NEVADA”, by Stephen M.Younger. Naval Institute Press: 2018, 303 pages, 12”x9”, hardcover; $45. Visit, www.usni.org.“The battleship is still the backboneof…
DESPITE BRAVE AND HEROIC ALLIED RESISTANCE, JAPANESE “TIGERS” EASILY OVERRAN THEDUTCH EAST INDIES IN THREE MONTHS – SPECIFICALLY, MALAYA AND SINGAPORE IN 79 DAYS.THEN, FACING IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, FEW SURVIVED CAPTURE, TORTURE, AND STARVATIONTWO NEW CASEMATE BOOKS VIVIDLY PRESENT THEIR EYE-WITNESSACCOUNTSRevived and highly recommended by Don DeNeviIn short, two absolute must-reads for those who must know…
Joseph John Rochefort, the man whose decoding of the Japanese codebook led to the American victory at the Battle of Midway, had enemies other than the Empire of Japan. His feats at cryptanalysis were phenomenal, but not universally appreciated, particularly by the codebreakers in Washington, D.C. Naval jealousy and internal machinations would rob Joseph Rochefort…
Audie Murphy was born a sharecropper, became the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, and went on to become a Hollywood star. Born June 20th, 1925 to Emmett Berry Murphy and Josie Belle Killian Murphy, no one could have predicted what this young boy’s life had in store for him. Untimely deaths, heroic…
The DPAA has announced that two US Navy brothers, Seaman 2nd Class Calvin H. Palmer and Seaman 2nd Class Wilferd D. Palmer, who were killed during the attack on the USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbour on December 7th, 1941, were finally accounted for on March 19, 2019. On December 7, 1941, Japanese carrier-based aircraft launched…
In Part One of Notable US Navy Losses of World War 2 we covered the USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), USS Tullibee (SS-284), USS Tang (SS-306), USS Mount Hood (AE-11), USS Borie (DD-215), USS Ingraham II (DD-444), USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Stewart (DD-224), USS Sturtevant (DD-240), USS R-12 (SS-89) and USS S-28 (SS-133) but these were just a handful of the notable losses. We asked our readers…
Upheaval, chaos and turmoil are all part of military history. It has been a privilege for me to write about men, machines and the fog of war in books, magazine articles and newspaper columns for 60 years — ever since my first paid contribution appeared in the November 1955 issue of Air Force magazine. But…
My favorite wreck in the Lagoon, the Shinkoku Maru, has become a fantastically beautiful artificial reef. Pink and purple anemones can be found all over the top deck and schools of fish, big and small, have populated the ship. Sitting between 9 and 40m (30-135ft) the 152m (500ft) Commercial tanker was built in 1940 and before the war…
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