Rabaul – A Place Where Victory Came to Die
Rabaul was a significant base used by the Japanese during the early years of the secone World War. The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, an instigating action of the New...
View Article“if a submarine is hit, the crew will never hear the explosion”
October 1943 was a very busy time for an expanding fleet in every corner of the world. The trials for the leadership of the Navy and Army that had been in charge during the attacks on Hawaii and...
View ArticleNavy Day 1943 – Threats from Within and Warnings about the Future
In October 1943, the country had been at war for nearly two years. The strength and power of our industrial base was at nearly full speed and in every corner of the land, the equipment and supplies...
View ArticleWant Volunteers? Keep Your Promises!
Fair warning: If you are strongly invested in Societal Permissiveness and DEI as a part of National Defense, this post is probably not for you. Also, a couple of salty words may have accidently slipped...
View Article“to become a leader, you must learn the following essential points: (What a...
As my regular readers probably already know, I collect Bluejackets Manuals. I’m lucky enough to have one from both of my grandfather’s eras as well as a few from my dad’s. The ones from their...
View ArticleNot for glory, but for victory – The need for Auxiliary Ships
Not for glory, but for victory Submarine tenders are near and dear to my heart. My seagoing career was launched and finished on the decks of two Cold War era tenders (USS Proteus and USS Hunley)....
View Article“Air Conditioning? Real Submariners Don’t Need No Air Conditioning”
“Air Conditioning? Real Submariners Don’t Need No Air Conditioning” From the very beginning of the submarine service in the United States, there were a number of constants. First, there was limited...
View ArticleHappy Navy Day 2024 – The 75th Anniversary of one of the worst bureaucratical...
I’ve written a lot about the history of Navy Day in the past including this article from 2019 The Last Navy Day – How Truman almost killed the US Navy This is the 75th anniversary of that last Navy Day...
View ArticleLest We Forget. USSV CF Memorial and Museum Boat Fund
Lest We Forget. USSV CF Memorial and Museum Boat Fund The desire to memorialize the great sacrifices made for a nation or cause goes back to the earliest times. Cave drawings and crude monuments to...
View ArticleRear Admiral Robert Stocker – A visionary Constructor that Changed the Course...
Retiring from any long-standing position is always a memorable event. I retired the first time when I was forty years old. It was sooner than I had planned but circumstances made it a reality and I...
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