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On This Day…November 17th.

by david leigh-smith on November 17, 2018 · in News · 3 ≡

P2Y’s of US Navy squadron VP-4 in formation flight over the Pacific Ocean, 17 Nov 1935. It is an awe inspiring sight to see so many of the beautiful aircraft in flight. Source; US Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation. German Army [...]

On This Day…November 16th.

by david leigh-smith on November 16, 2018 · in News · 3 ≡

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Rick Rescorla, Platoon Leader of 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division – Ia Drang Valley, South Vietnam, November 16, 1965 Born in England, Rick Rescorla first served in the British Army, then [...]

On This Day…November 15th.

by david leigh-smith on November 15, 2018 · in News · 9 ≡

15th November 1967 saw the only fatality of the X-15 program during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams lost control of his aircraft which exploded mid-air over the Mojave Desert. TBM-1 Avenger of VT-87 launching [...]

On This Day…November 14th.

by david leigh-smith on November 14, 2018 · in News · 22 ≡

The deck crew of the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) clearing snow from the flight deck, off Korea, 14 Nov 1950; the F4U-4B Corsairs belong with US Marine Corps squadron VMF-323. The Badoeng earned six battlestars in Korea. This following [...]

On This Day...November 13th.

by david leigh-smith on November 13, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

The HMS Ark Royal was torpedoed on the 3rd November, 1941 by German submarine U-81 just off Gibraltar in the Med where she had been engaged in reinforcing Malta's defences. Remarkably she was lost with the death of just one crew. The [...]

On This Day...November 12th.

by david leigh-smith on November 12, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

A really nice photo of a SBD-5 Dauntless flying over the USS Washington (with the USS Lexington in the beckground) heading toward the Gilbert Islands, 12 Nov 1943. In this photo, members of an RAF technical intelligence team are seen [...]

On This Day…November 11th.

by david leigh-smith on November 11, 2018 · in News · 9 ≡

Twenty one Fairey Swordfish launch from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious for the raid on Taranto on 11th November, 1940. ...and one of the Swordfish that took place in the battle that ditched in Cefalu, Sicily. A NCO briefing his men [...]

On This Day…November 10th.

by david leigh-smith on November 10, 2018 · in News · 14 ≡

In memory of those who never came home. On November 10, 1951, while on a combat mission, First Lieutenant Mike Rebo was part of flight of 12 F-84Es attacked by 24 to 30 MIG-15s 30 miles southwest of Pyongyang, North Korea. The last radio [...]

On This Day…November 9th.

by david leigh-smith on November 9, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

9th November 1942. Troops loading mines onto an Avro Lancaster as they prepare to lay them in the North Sea.. The installation of a gun in number 2 turret of battleship USS North Carolina (BB55), New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, on the 9th [...]

On This Day...November 8th.

by david leigh-smith on November 8, 2018 · in News · 7 ≡

On 8th November 1942 the first U.S. troops lnded in French North Africa with the invasion of Morocco and Algeria. It was hoped (rightly) that the French officers (who had reached an ‘accommodation’ with the Nazis) would baulk at [...]