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Updates for May 2008:
Added another interview: this one of Lieutenant H.B. Harden,
Air Operations Officer, CV-6 ENTERPRISE, dated March 4, 1943.
Added a document on US Aircraft carrier
markings immediately postwar.
Updates for April 2008:
Added a document about strengthening US Destroyer Bows for submarine ramming in 1943.
Added an interview with Lt. Col Edward Montgomery, USMC, regarding US Marines flying with the Royal Air Force in 1943 to learn night-fighing skills.
Updates for March 2008:
1943 Navy interview with Medal of Honor winner Joe Foss, USMC, regarding action at Guadalcanal.
Two new PT Camouflage Documents; a July 1944 Pacific-based PT Camouflage order and September 1944 revision.
Two new Aircraft carrier camouflage documents; a January 1945 memo from Air Force, Pacific Fleet requesting change, and a February 1945 Pacific Fleet Maintenance Office memo forwarding those changes to the Pacific Fleet.
Updates for February 2008:
New naval ship camouflage documents; 1941 Order to remove insignias from ships and the copy of the S19-7 Serial 631 that pertains to camouflage of Auxiliaries
Started Chapter 3 of OEG 51: Antisubmarine Warfare in WWII
Updates for January 2008:
Added "Pattern" Boresighting for Fighter Aircraft, a 1943 USN document, to the Aircraft Section.
Added a new camouflage document for 1943; the introduction of the Tropical Green System.
Updates for December 2007:
Added Characteristics of Enemy Submarines, a 1943 summary of what the USN knew about U-boats and Japanese submarines at that point of the war.
Updates for November 2007:
Added a document detailing using PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats as minelayers in 1943.
Updates for October 2007:
Added a Damage report for DD-407 following a kamikaze attack in 1945.
New camouflage document for January 1945 posted.
Hi Fitz!!
Updates for September 2007:
Added a 1944 camouflage memo and attachment
detailing PT boat camouflage in the Pacific.
Added a page and a half to the OEG Report on ASW in
WWII.
Updates for August 2007:
Added a 1942 paint memo on the camouflage painting of new-construction destroyers and an August, 1941 memo from the Commandant of the 13th Naval District clarifying camouflage instructions.
Updates for July 2007:
Added TONS of Navy Ship Camouflage memos in the US Navy Camouflage Section: 1940's 4CN-40: Camouflage Painting for Destroyers, 1941 memos (April) Outside Gray Paints, Deck Staining, Camouflage for new Construction, 15-CN-41: Camouflage Experiments, the SHIPS-2 Rev 1 Distribution letter and SHIPS-2 itself, and finally for 1941, Atlantic Fleet 13 CL-41 and the transition to Measure 12 Mod. Also added a 1942 Pacific Fleet memo ordering Measure 21 for most ships. August's updates will not be this large!
Updates for June 2007:
Added the Naval Armed Guards report on the attack on Dutch Harbor and a late 1941 US Navy Camouflage Paint Memo.
Updates for May 2007:
Added the start of Chapter 2, Part 1 of OEG Report #51, ASW in World War II.
Updates for April 2007:
Added Chapter 1, Part 1 of OEG Report #51, ASW in World War II.
Updates for March 2007:
Started adding a new document, OEG Report #51, ASW in World War II. As the original was a near-200 page document it will take some time.
Updates for February 2007:
Laptop problems kept me sidelined most of the month, but I did manage to add another December 1944 Ship Camouflage Memo to the ship camouflage section.
Updates for January 2007:
Added a section on BB-57 USS South Dakota and a War Damage Report for her June 19, 1944 bombing.
Updates for December 2006:
Added a page on Pre-war US Navy Aircraft Painting
Added a page on Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Arlington, Washington.
Added a new section on US Naval Camouflage.
Updates for November 2006:
Added a page and documents regarding the sinking of the Soviet Submarine L16 and a US Navy sailor aboard her in 1942.
Updates for October 2006:
Added Wadleigh's Repair in Forward Area Chapter.
Finished Structural Repairs in Forward Areas During World War II.
Added a photo page for ZPNK - US Navy "K" Class Blimps.
Updates for September 2006:
Two new cruiser pages; one for CL-81 Houston and another for CL-96 Reno with corresponding entries in the "Forward Repair" book.
New destroyer page for DD-415 O'Brien and her DD-415 O'Brien repair in forward area entry.
Updates for August 2006:
PG-50 Erie Section & report on Salvage following torpedo damage, November 1942.
Posted Table of Contents for new special topic: Structural Repairs in Forward Areas During World War II
Updates for July 2006:
CV-14 Ticonderoga section and war damage report for January, 1945 posted.
New CV-11 Intrepid section & a report on her repair following torpedo attack, February 1944.
Updates for June 2006:
Report and Photographs on the bombing of Dutch Harbor, June,
1942.
Updates for May 2006:
CV-12 Hornet page and
Report on Flight Deck Collapse during
Typhoon.
Updates for February 2006:
November 1941 report on Canadian Intelligence on
Japan
Sky Lookout - Construction of
40 MM Guns - Installation on CV9 Class
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