Carrier Evolution I: The beginning
USN Carrier Evolution I: Genesis by Scot MacDonaldReprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News Feb 1962 pp 2-8. This is the first of a series of articles written in the early […]
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Carrier Evolution II: Post WW I
USN Carrier Evolution II: Post Jutland Second article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, March 1962, pp 9 – 15. “It is impossible to […]
Carrier Evolution III: Langley to Sara
USN Carrier Evolution III: Langley, Lex and Sara Third article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, May 1962, pp 16 – 21. “One day, […]
Carrier Evolution IV: Purpose-built ships
USN Carrier Evolution IV: Purpose-built ships Fourth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, June 1962, pp 22- 27. “Such remarks as I […]
Carrier Evolution V: War Games I
USN Carrier Evolution V: War Games 1 By Scot MacDonald. Fifth article in a series. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News August 1962 pp. 28-33. One of those whose untiring […]
Carrier Evolution VI: War Games II
USN Carrier Evolution VI: The last of the Fleet Problems Sixth article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, September 1962, pp 34-38. “The culmination […]
Hobart in Vietnam: Followup Letters
Hobart in Vietnam: Follow-up letters by Ian Callaway and David Holthouse Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here Ian Callaway (left) is at the Naval Gunfire Support (NGS) plotting […]
HMAS Boonaroo
HMAS Boonaroo by Pat Burnett The short and unusual history of HMAS Boonaroo constitutes an historical first in the story of the RAN. It was the first occasion on which […]
Carrier Evolution VII: Early Japanese
USN Carrier Evolution VII: Early Japanese carriers Seventh article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, October 1962 pp. 39-42. “In the last analysis, the […]
Liberty Ships
Liberty Ships Disaster loomed. The RAF had blunted Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring’s blitz, but by September 1941 VADM Karl Dönitz’s Type VII U-Boats were regularly decimating Atlantic convoys. It was becoming […]