Category: US Navy

Every Moment Mattered – The Life and Death of Cassin Young, Captain, USN MOH Recipient – Chapter Two: The First Year is Always the Hardest

Chapter Two: The First Year is always the hardest The rains in old Crab Town had to be a welcome relief to the incoming Plebes. Even those who had an athletic background surely must have withered under the heat and humidity that accompanied the scorn of the upper classmen that were unlucky enough to get […]

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Every Moment Mattered – The Life and Death of Cassin Young, Captain, USN MOH Recipient – Chapter One: Plebes is Plebes

Previous post: If you had not read the previous post, here is the link. At the end of the story, I will link them all together on one page here on the blog. Every Moment Mattered – The Life and Death of Cassin Young, Captain, USN MOH Recipient (Introduction and Prologue) Chapter One:  Plebes is […]

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Every Moment Mattered – The Life and Death of Cassin Young, Captain, USN MOH Recipient (Introduction and Prologue)

Did you ever get interested enough in a particular subject that you would gladly spend hundreds if not thousands of hours researching that subject? That pretty much describes my passion for the story of Cassin Young. I can’t remember when I started researching and writing a proposed book about Cassin Young. It seems like it’s […]

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Observations on Japanese character, with special reference to Japan’s ambition and her relation in this connection with the United States. A confidential report from Admiral Greaves (1920)

I debated trying to shorten this post up a bit then decided that the story had so much significance, cutting pieces out would be difficult and would not be fair to the purpose I intended. I have been featuring some articles recently about Japan and its navy. One of the characters that came into view […]

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“Information from other sources sheds rather a different light on the matter.” Underestimating any enemy can be dangerous

“Information from other sources sheds rather a different light on the matter.” Underestimating any enemy can be dangerous. Recently, I was browsing through the national archives and found some declassified documents dating back to the 1920’s about submarine development abroad. During that time frame, there was a great desire on all parts of the world […]

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