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“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”
“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”
“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”
“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”
“Nine months and a day after she was commissioned, the pug-nosed little carrier Bismark Sea (CVE-95) was as much in the two-day-old battle for Iwo Jima as the Marines fighting for the island’s lower air strip. This was her third major campaign in less than four months. Her career was just beginning, and the crew was proud of calling her the Busy Bee. She was a happy ship.”
Happy or not, after two Kamikazes hit home, the ship sank in just two hours, taking 318 men with her. She claimed the dubious distinction of being the last American carrier to be lost in the war.
“One of the best kept secrets of the war was revealed by a recent Navy Department report that, on June 4, 1944, an escort carrier task group hounded a Nazi sub through the waters some 150 miles off the coast of French West Africa near Cape Blanco, forced it to the surface, boarded it, and took the Nazi over. The group then towed their prize, U-505, about 2,500 miles to Bermuda…”
Just as the Pershing M26 tank was deployed to the ETO during the closing weeks of that campaign, so too, was the Grumman 747 Tigercat deployed to the Pacific just weeks before the Japanese capitulation.
“If the Japs have a word for ‘duck,’ they’re probably using it plenty these days when they see the new TIGERCATS, that twin-engine fighter recently thrown into action in the Pacific. Termed F7F in Navy parlance, the latest Grumman battler to be given public recognition is one of those versatile designer’s dreams that can lug bombs, toss rockets, intercept cover bombers on long-range missions, fly night hawk expeditions and do everything else but have a baby for you… which is about all they haven’t been asked to do.”
Just as the Pershing M26 tank was deployed to the ETO during the closing weeks of that campaign, so too, was the Grumman 747 Tigercat deployed to the Pacific just weeks before the Japanese capitulation.
“If the Japs have a word for ‘duck,’ they’re probably using it plenty these days when they see the new TIGERCATS, that twin-engine fighter recently thrown into action in the Pacific. Termed F7F in Navy parlance, the latest Grumman battler to be given public recognition is one of those versatile designer’s dreams that can lug bombs, toss rockets, intercept cover bombers on long-range missions, fly night hawk expeditions and do everything else but have a baby for you… which is about all they haven’t been asked to do.”
Just as the Pershing M26 tank was deployed to the ETO during the closing weeks of that campaign, so too, was the Grumman 747 Tigercat deployed to the Pacific just weeks before the Japanese capitulation.
“If the Japs have a word for ‘duck,’ they’re probably using it plenty these days when they see the new TIGERCATS, that twin-engine fighter recently thrown into action in the Pacific. Termed F7F in Navy parlance, the latest Grumman battler to be given public recognition is one of those versatile designer’s dreams that can lug bombs, toss rockets, intercept cover bombers on long-range missions, fly night hawk expeditions and do everything else but have a baby for you… which is about all they haven’t been asked to do.”
Just as the Pershing M26 tank was deployed to the ETO during the closing weeks of that campaign, so too, was the Grumman 747 Tigercat deployed to the Pacific just weeks before the Japanese capitulation.
“If the Japs have a word for ‘duck,’ they’re probably using it plenty these days when they see the new TIGERCATS, that twin-engine fighter recently thrown into action in the Pacific. Termed F7F in Navy parlance, the latest Grumman battler to be given public recognition is one of those versatile designer’s dreams that can lug bombs, toss rockets, intercept cover bombers on long-range missions, fly night hawk expeditions and do everything else but have a baby for you… which is about all they haven’t been asked to do.”
