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Of all the births in Australia's most populous city, Sydney, during 1911, Clive Robertson Caldwell's birth might have seemed the least auspicious. Yet he was destined to become Australia's top scoring ace pilot, accumulating 28.5 kills over the course of the war, earning him the nickname "Killer"...
Ever have it where you find a book and buy it but don't get around to reading it right away? Well, I found this book in a tiny book store where all the covers and titles are obscure and relatively unknown. The title, Proud Echo, caught my attent...
I'm currently working on a book review for SR Brown's World War II Memorial: Jewel of the Mall. Look for this in the next week or so. Until then, enjoy this youtube vid on the memorial's dedication.
Frank Jack Fletcher was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States as the nephew of American admiral Frank Friday Fletcher. He graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis on 12 Feb 1906 and spent the next two years at sea before he was commissioned a junior officer rank of ensign. After some t...
The M6A Seiran submarine-launched torpedo seaplanes were designed in response for a 1942 requirement for aircraft to be used in conjunction with the I-400-class submarine carriers of the Japanese Navy. They were of an all-metal construction, with control surfaces covered in fabric. The d...
| DD386/A16 Serial (0131) | UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET DESTROYERS, BATTLE FORCE | U.S.S. Bagley (386) Pearl Harbor, T.H., December 11, 1941. |
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Interrogation Nav 11, Captain Atsushi OiBiography OI, Atsushi, Captain, I.J.N. OI's 25 years of Naval service included training at the Naval War College and numerous assignments to staff duty. He acquired thorough familiarity with the Japanese organization for control and protection of shipping during World War II through his... Solothurn S-18/100
The Swiss-made Solothurn S-18/100 semi-automatic 20-mm anti-tank rifles were powerful but yet cumbersome weapons. They were able to achieve armor penetration of 20-mm at a distance of 100 meters. However, these anti-tank rifles produced tremendous recoil, and they were too large to easily carry... SBD Dauntless
The SBD Dauntless dive bombers were the main dive bombers of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps from late 1940. A number of them, known as A-24 Banshee, were employed by the US Army as well; the Army versions had no arresting hooks and used different tires. In early 1941, the... I-400
Submarine I-400 was the namesake craft of her class of underwater aircraft carriers, capable of carrying up to three M6A Seiran seaplanes. Built at Kure, Japan, she (later joined by her sister submarines) became the largest submarine in the world, and would remain so until 1965. On 15 De... Michio Kobayashi
Michio Kobayashi was born in Fuirukawa, Sasebo, Japan. He attended the Navy Academy at Etajima, Japan between 1934 and 1937. In 1938, he began flight training, and by the start of the Pacific War he was a commander of a dive bomber unit aboard carrier Hiryu at the rank of lieutenant. He was co... MBR-2
In 1931, Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev designed a flying boat aircraft that were branched into civilian transport (as the MP-1) as well as military reconnaissance (as the Morskoi Blizhniy Razvedchik ("Naval Short Range Reconnaissance"), or MBR-2). Visually they were characterized by the larg... US Navy Report of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor, Enclosure E, USS Aylwin (2)
DD355/A16 Serial 01 At Sea, January 4, 1942.
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