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USS Franklin Band, The Flattoppers, taken late 1944, courtesy of Dean Slejko.

Big Ben’s Big Band, The Franklin Flattoppers

June 6, 2023
Saxes, left to right: Ed Slejko, Eddie DiMartino, Earl Bergman, Ray Beller, Deane...
USS Franklin / USS Franklin Flattoppers
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Honoring Lt Colonel Edwin L. Atterberry, USAF

May 29, 2023
Official photo of Captain Edwin Lee Atterberry, USAF Credit United States Air Force...
Lt. Col Edwin Atterberry
Father O'Callahan tends to a wounded man on the Franklin's flight deck. Credit: Naval History and Heritage Command

“Heroism,” A Common Theme In News Reports of USS Franklin Attack

May 19, 2023
Chaplain O'Callahan giving last rites to a sailor (who survived). On Friday, May...
19 march / USS Franklin
Daily Calisthenics on the flight deck of USS Yorktown CV-10, an Essex class carrier, during the summer of 1943. Planes are Grumman F6F-3 HELLCAT fighters.

Life Aboard An Essex Class Carrier During WWII

May 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/embed/B5JbXRDOP60 I search YouTube for oral histories and documentaries on World War II...
Books, Movies, Videos, and other media
USS Franklin In New York Harbor April 1945 80-G-K-4760

Blooded But Unbowed, USS Franklin Arrives In New York

April 28, 2023
USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) arrives at New York Navy Yard for repair of battle...
Captain Leslie Gehres / Stephen Jurika / USS Franklin
80-G-41196. An Army Air Force B-25B bomber takes off from Hornet at the start of the Doolittle raid, 18 April 1942.

USS Franklin’s Connection To The Doolittle Raid

April 18, 2023
An Army Air Force B-25B bomber takes off from Hornet at the start...
Stephen Jurika / USS Hornet CV-8
Selection of the books I'm using for research

How Being a Continuous Learner Helps Research My Book on USS Franklin

April 16, 2023
Being a continuous learner has kept me focused on writing my first book...
Me / Research / USS Franklin / Workflow

WHAT I’M READING: IMPLACABLE FOES

April 6, 2023
Photo by author As I research and write my book, I intend to...
What I am Reading
Operating near the Marianas, 1 August 1944. Photographed from USS Hornet (CV-12). Franklin is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 6a. At this time, Design 6a was applied only to her starboard side. She wore Design 3a on the port side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Catalog #: 80-G-367248

How USS Franklin Got Its Name

March 28, 2023
The ship is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at...
Naming Convention
Father O'Callahan tends to a wounded man on the Franklin's flight deck. Credit: Naval History and Heritage Command

19 March 1945 Timeline

March 19, 2023
Taken from the USS Santa Fe, the USS Franklin is shown with a...
19 march / Timeline

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