Flags Out on Memorial Day
Spent Memorial Day mornings getting U.S. flags up on the still-under-construction Lexington (CV-2) and Essex (CV-9) models and decided to...
USS Essex (CV-9) model island modifications
I've been closing in on finishing the Trumpeter 1/700 USS Essex (CV-9) that I bought so long ago I don't even...
New Naval History Books
I posted recently on two 1943 books about the carrier war in the Pacific in 1942, A Ship to Remember...
Carrier Combat – Lieut. Frederick Mears
While reading Alvin Kernan's excellent books on his experiences in the first year of the Pacific war, I kept seeing...
A Ship to Remember: the Saga of The Hornet – Alexander R. Griffin
This is a 1943 book about the short wartime career of the first aircraft carrier Hornet. As you might expect,...
The Winter Thief: A Kamil Pasha Novel – Jenny White
I just finished another Kamil Pasha book. This latest involved a...