Carrier Evolution VIII: Early CVAs
USN Carrier Evolution VIII: Early Attack Carriers Eighth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, November 1962, pp 44-48. “We have hit the Japanese […]
Month: August 2009
Carrier Evolution IX: Escort CVEs
USN Carrier Evolution IX: Escort Carriers Ninth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, December 1962 pp 49-53. “The story of the escort aircraft […]
Carrier Evolution X: Battle CVAs
USN Carrier Evolution X: The battle carriers Tenth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, January 1963, pp 54-56. The life of the Midway […]
Carrier Evolution XI: Japanese WW II
USN Carrier Evolution XI: The Japanese carriers in WW II Eleventh article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, April 1963. Japan is beaten, and […]
Torpedo pistols
Torpedo pistols Torpedoes have come a long way since the Ottoman submerged submarine Abdülhamid first fired a torpedo in 1886 and Russian torpedo boats sank the Turkish steamer Intibah on […]
RADM Fluckey USN
Fluckey and the Barb RADM Eugene B. Fluckey USN, the most highly decorated American serviceman then living, died on 28 June 2007, aged 93, of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He won […]
Subsunk and Rescue
Submarine rescue: The Australian experience In the last 100 years, more than 200 submarines have been lost by accident or error, usually with a large loss of life. Seven submarines […]
X-craft: Australian-manned
Australians in midget submarines by Ray Worledge Japan’s midget submarines proved a failure during the otherwise successful attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. They also failed in Sydney Harbour […]
The O-Boat Mystery Boats
The mystery boats by Geoffrey BarkerReprinted with permission from the Australian Financial Review Magazine, December 2003 pp.17-21. It’s the great untold story of Australian naval history. Throughout the last decade […]
Sportsman Reports
HMS Sportsman Reports by Captain (S), First Submarine Flotilla to Flag Officer Levant and Eastern Mediterranean Forwarded by Stephen Dearnley, a “very junior Sportsman fourth hand” at that time. HMS […]