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Today on Video Thursday, we'll take a look at multiple naval guns across the barriers of time. First we'll start off with some old guns from the USS Wisconsin BB-64, during the battleship era her 16...
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The Caroline Mars, a JRM-2 flying boat, broke the world record for passenger lift by carrying 202 men from NAS Alameda to NAS North Island, San Diego and broke it again the same day, 25 February 1949...
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This is a repost from February of 2009 on Master Sgt. Henry "Red" Erwin (1921-2002), Medal of Honor recipient. Today I met the granddaughter of Henry E. “Red” Erwin. Jennifer Michaels and her two sons...
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Beginning on 02 March 1925, the United States Navy made the first tactical use of naval air power with the operations of the USS Langley, CV-1, during Fleet Problem V. Interestingly, Fleet Problem V...
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Today our videos take a look at supersonic flight, shock waves and the sound barrier (there is no such thing)...Supersonic flight and sonic booms literally grabbed the imagination and attention of the...
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[/caption] Our March volunteer profile is on our "Head Volunteer" Arnie Stein. Arnie was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from high school in 1957 and joined the United States Army in 1958...
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On 07 March 1942 aerial antisubmarine warfare took a leap with the demonstration of an aerial dropped, radio sonobuoy off New London, Connecticut. A K-5 blimp used a sonobuoy to detect the sound of a...
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[/caption] The United States Naval Air Forces Facebook page is promoting a March Madness Aircraft Carrier Competition. Help Yorktown win this tournament by going to their FB page and clicking on this...
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This Saturday from 3 to 4 PM in the Smokey Stover theater on the USS Yorktown, noted author Paul Suhler will speak on Stealth Technology and the SR-71 Blackbird. Special price for event is $5 to come...
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Today's Video Thursday features videos with a Civil War theme as we approach the beginning of our nation's sesquicentennial events. Events that should highlight the tragedy of our bloodiest war of...
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Over 300 Civil War reenactors will be camped at Patriots Point in an artillery camp overlooking Charleston Harbor with 20-24 artillery pieces to fire upon Fort Sumter. Living history presentations...
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On 15 March 1934, Dr. Hoyt Taylor, head of the radio division at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) , put into motion a project to develop pulse radar for the detection of ships and aircraft. Pulse radar...
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Any guesses on what was the first color chosen by the Navy bureaucracy for a tactical paint scheme? Of course it was Navy gray! On 15 March 1918, the Bureau of Construction and Repair directed that...
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[/caption] Gemini VIII (8) with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Young made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean 500 miles east of Okinawa on 16 March 1966 only 10 hours and 41 minutes...
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[/caption] When Irish eyes are smiling...watch this video of the Irish air demonstration team, the Silver Swallows, as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day... [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DeD...
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Task Force 58 under Admiral Marc Mitscher began the campaign against Okinawa with strikes on Kyushu, Japan, beginning on 18 March. The sorties would last four days and destroy over 482 Japanese...
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If I die young bury me in satin Lay me down on a bed of roses Sink me in the river at dawn Send me away with the words of a love song In a sense we all die young. Even those who live a full human span...
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Before 22 March 1915, a pilot in the Navy was known as a "Navy Air Pilot," after that date the term became Naval Aviator. As the World War II poster above asks, "Have you got it?" The Blue Angel pilot...
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Yorktown defeated Tarawa 53-10, second round action finds Yorktown in a battle with active duty carrier Abraham Lincoln. At halftime its Yorktown 35, Lincoln 31. Please go here to Yorktown's photo as...
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This is the Centennial Year of Naval Aviation in the United States, and naval aviators have been flying onto (traps) and launching (cats) from ships for over 100 years. It is a dangerous business, but...