Naval Communique No. 214 – December 6, 1942: THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, DECEMBER 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor – The narrative Nearly one year after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy Department released a comprehensive report detailing the losses and destruction at Pearl Harbor. Fighting in the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal was ongoing but after the epic sea battles in the preceding months, the battle was turning in favor […]
Read More Naval Communique No. 214 – December 6, 1942: THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, DECEMBER 7, 1941The rarest commodity – sleep
Civilians take sleep for granted. But anyone who has ever been in the service, whether as an officer or enlisted person knows that sleep is one of the greatest luxuries that has ever existed. When you leave home and arrive at your basic training, you immediately realize that sleep is regulated by someone who is […]
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In 1942, the world was at war. There were very few places that weren’t affected by Chaos. The oceans were still the primary way that commerce traveled abroad, and those seas were filled with sharks that did their best to slow that commerce down. Those were, of course, the steel submarines that were filled with […]
Read More He’s in Submarines Now – A long line of Shared ExperienceREPORT ON THE U.S. SUBMARINE PROGRAM – 1968
During the period from 1966 through 1968, the Cold War was producing a heightened level of activity on both sides of the global divide. The Soviets were building their submarine fleet with increased attention to both quantity and quality. The west was trying to make sure its qualitative edge would be enough to counter that […]
Read More REPORT ON THE U.S. SUBMARINE PROGRAM – 1968The Patten Family and the USS Nevada (first posted in 2018)
Is there any such thing as an average Submariner?
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The Polaris Story Revisited
1985: On the Brink and the Year of the Spies
I don’t think most people realized how much the year 1985 changed the course of naval history. In April of 1985, I was a First-Class Machinist Mate petty officer stationed on board the mighty warship USS Ohio SSBN 726. It was the height of the Cold War, and we were engaged in Strategic Deterrent Patrols […]
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