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Photo taken below flight deck level showing A Curtiss SB2C-3 "Hell-diver" bomber taking a "wave-off" while attempting to land in March 1945. Landing signal officer's platform is in the foreground

My World War II Knowledge Broadens

February 26, 2025
One of my intentions in writing a book on the most decorated US...
Books, Movies, Videos, and other media / Emerging Technologies / Radar / US Navy
Captain Leslie Gehres in his Patrol Wing Four headquarters. Photo US Navy

USS Franklin Research Assistance Needed

February 12, 2025
Commodore Leslie Gehres, after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service...
Captain Leslie Gehres / Emerging Technologies / Essex-class aircraft carriers / USS Franklin
USS Franklin May 4 1944

Write a Letter To Your Mom!

February 4, 2025
Captain Shoemaker writes to a mother who had not received letters from her...
Shipboard Life / US Navy / USS Franklin
Arial photo of a line of US Essex-class carrriers moored parallel to each other in Ulithi Atoll. USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-294131

Aircraft Carrier: An RKO-Pathé Documentary

November 25, 2024
This Is America, a series of documentary shorts, released Aircraft Carrier, in April...
Essex-class aircraft carriers / US Navy
Photo taken below flight deck level showing A Curtiss SB2C-3 "Hell-diver" bomber taking a "wave-off" while attempting to land in March 1945. Landing signal officer's platform is in the foreground

Landing Signal Officer On USS Franklin

November 11, 2024
Cover of the book, Their Life In My Hands by C. Edgar Mikronis....
19 march / USS Franklin
Captain Leslie Gehres in his Patrol Wing Four headquarters. Photo US Navy

Was Captain Leslie Gehres, USN, Ill-Treated?

November 7, 2024
Commodore Leslie Gehres, after being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service...
Captain Leslie Gehres / US Navy / USS Franklin
USS Franklin In New York Harbor April 1945 80-G-K-4760

Navy Day Does Without USS Franklin

October 29, 2024
If you ever wonder how to respond to an ill-conceived request from a...
US Navy / USS Franklin
View of the George W. Bush Gallery at the National Museum of the Pacific War (Author's photo.)

Research Visit to the National Museum of the Pacific War

October 23, 2024
View of the George W. Bush Gallery at the National Museum of the...
Research / The National Museum of the Pacific War
USS Franklin, with bunting draped underneath her bow, is floated out of dry dock on 14 October 1943.

USS Franklin Commissioned 14 October 1943

October 14, 2024
The ship is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at...
USS Franklin
Two carriers burning after separate kamikaze strikes. USS Franklin (CV-13), at right, and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) afire after being hit by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Photographed from USS Brush (DD-745). US Navy 80-G-326798

USS Franklin Has A Busy October

October 3, 2024
Air Group-13 Hellcats, Avengers, and Helldivers prepare to strike the Japanese in the...
Air Group 13 / Battle of Leyte Gulf / Kamikaze attack / October 1944 / US Navy / USS Franklin

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