Recent content by Chas

SBD But I just finished reading 'Never Call Me a Hero', by Jack "Dusty" Kleiss about the battle of Midway. A worthwhile WWII book. Another worthwhile book is The Silver Waterfall by Simms & McGregor

Looks like the A/B-26 Douglas Invader.

Many years ago I experienced a “chamber ride” courtesy of the USAF. This was to familiarize us with the effects of too little oxygen. The chambers’ oxygen content was slowly reduced until we got to the equivalent of 25,000 ft. During the ride “up” we worked puzzles, talked, took quizzes, made...

Airships were used to patrol the west coast during WWII. Two blimp hangers still exist near Tustin, CA (near LA)(one is in use), and two are still at Moffett Field (one is in use), south of San Francisco. Another is at Tillamook, Oregon, that is an Air Museum now. Several years ago a modern...

Yes - just got a complete download of the "Ships damaged...." report. As mentioned the download stopped about half way through, but as I started scrolling thru the document additional pages kept popping in. I now have the whole document. It's a 71 MB pdf file. A fantastic amount of information...

Very well done video. Thanks for posting!

Line personel in my Navy squadron would tow our F9F-5s and-6s behind a running one to get the ice off. This was at NAS Fallon, Nevada during winters there.