Steel Boats, Iron Men and their stories (plus a bit more)
Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
For over a century the leadership of the U.S. Army and Navy were in agreement about how the United States coast would be managed: the Army would defend the beaches and out to the range of their coastal guns, and the Navy would protect anything beyond that range. The advent of…
Alpha “and” Omega The beginning and the end. I looked at those words for a while to think about where I am in my life at this point. I will turn 60 years old this year and if things continue to progress as they should, I am much nearer the second than the first. Not […]
Read More Alpha “and” Omegahttp://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/12/29#.UsNve-93vIU Thanks to my cousin for the best answer to the question: what should I post today to celebrate New Years? I wish you and yours the very best in the exciting year to come Mister Mac
Read More ChangeThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many […]
Read More 2013 in reviewEvery time I see a member of the opposition party standing up and supporting policies that are ill thought out and ill prepared to serve the nation, I am reminded of the delusional attitude of the despicable Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. His address to the German nation in December of 1943 on the eve […]
Read More Comrades, If you like your Reich, you can keep your ReichVictory At Sea ~ Full Fathom Five – HQ The threat of death at full fathom five is always in the backs of the minds of the submariners according to the steady voice of the narrator. Yet they still went on many patrols and exacted a toll on the enemy that brought him to a […]
Read More Inflict Maximum Damage on Enemy Shipping“We’re all in this together” … unless of course you were in the union One of the greatest myths ever perpetrated about the greatest generation is that everybody was in it together for the win during World War 2. Winning a war is a lot more than just having men in uniform. They need the […]
Read More December 27 1943 Greatest Generation … well mostlyIn the disastrous aftermath of Pearl Harbor December 1941, the United States and the remaining countries that were considered free faced enormous odds in their struggle against the Axis Powers. The war plans that had been poured over with such intensity for so many decades now laid in ruins as the ships and planes that […]
Read More Christmas 1943 – The Tide Has Turned in the WestLooking back over the past year of blogging, I have learned a few things about what people seem to like. Like most blogs, I have the ability to see what gets hits and what does not. The top post for the year (and frankly since the beginning of the blog) was I’d like to be […]
Read More Lessons learned at theleansubmariner – 2013Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
Beat Army A decade of dominance… sorry to all my Army readers!
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