Steel Boats, Iron Men and their stories (plus a bit more)
When you get to a certain point in your life you start taking stock of what mattered. The first seventeen or eighteen years of most people’s lives are the foundations for much of who they become. If you grew up in Middle America, your understanding of relationships, education, and spirituality are all forged from those […]
Read More Homecoming… its a harder journey than you think without brothersHappy New Year from TLS I have been doing a lot of research on my WW2 projects and came across a great source of information. The Navy publishes a monthly magazine that dates back to the 1920’s under a variety of names including “All Hands Magazine”. Now for something completely different I was thinking about […]
Read More Birth of the BoomersToday marks the end of yet another year. The world has turned 365 more times in its journey and I feel fortunate to have had more good days than bad ones during that time. I find myself in a much better place today than I did a year ago and for that I am grateful. […]
Read More The one thing you can’t stopA colleague posted a story about two seven year old girls talking at a funeral. One girl told the other her uncle was in the Navy. The second little girl said that she thought navy was a color. Is Navy a color? In the eyes of a seven year old, maybe that is her […]
Read More Is Navy a color?2017 was quite a year There have been a lot of changes in my life the last year. Health events, career events and just general life events have all added to the mix. Some of the events have been surprising to say the least and frankly you could look at what happened in 2017 and […]
Read More 2017 – What a great year.The F-1 Started out as the Carp (SS-20) The submarine torpedo boat Carp (SS-20), the latest and most efficient type of underwater fighter, was launched on September 6, 1911 at the Union Iron Works. Miss Josephine Tynan, little daughter of Joseph. J. Tynan, general manager of the Iron Works, christened the fish-like craft, and the launching was […]
Read More Sinking of the F-1 on December 17, 1917Submarine Casualties Booklet I am doing some research on older submarines and stumbled across this little gem. I’ll include the link to the whole article at the end of this page. The Booklet was written before 1966 so does not include any accidents that may have happened after that time (including the loss of the […]
Read More Submarine Casualties that Could Surprise YouA16-3/(0923) UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET BATTLESHIPS, BATTLE FORCE U.S.S. MARYLAND, Flagship December 19, 1941 From: Commander Battleships, Battle Force. To: Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Subject: Attack at pearl Harbor by Japanese Planes on December 7, 1941. Reference: (a) CO West Virginia ltr BB48/A16-3 of Dec. 11, 1941., with Combat ships lst end A16-3,(0974) of […]
Read More Attack at Pearl Harbor by Japanese Planes on December 7, 1941 – Battleships, Battle Force After Action ReportSeventy Five Years ago (1942) The Navy Department released a statement on the events that had transpired nearly one year before on December 7, 1941. The world was vastly different in those days when it came to the press and communications. The magnitude of the damage in Pearl was probably not understood fully by the […]
Read More The Official Navy Department Statement regarding the Pearl Harbor Attack published One year after (1942)Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
Compton: The Italian navigator has landed in the New World. Conant: How were the natives? Compton: Very friendly. December 2nd 1942 was the day the world changed forever. The title of this story is the coded telephone message confirming first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on that day. On that afternoon, the…
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