Category Archives: navy

Wreck of Italian Battleship Roma Discovered

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The wreck of the Italian battleship Roma has been located by Italian Navy divers off the coast of Sardinia after a lenghty multi-year search. The battleship Roma was sunk by German aircraft on September 9, 1943 while underway to Malta … Continue reading →

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Two PTs Battle Two German DDs

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

U.S. PT boat action in the Mediterranean from the Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, (“All Hands Magazine”), July 1944. Two PTs Battle Two German DDs Two U.S. PT boats took on two German destroyers recently in the Mediterranean, lured … Continue reading →

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Operation Icebox

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin
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Battery of the Battleship USS California

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The shining 14-inch 50-caliber main guns, “sentinels of security,” form the forward main battery of the USS California (BB-44). The USS California was sunk on Battleship Row in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the ship was … Continue reading →

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Eleven Navy Nurses Decorated

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

A brief article on U.S. Navy nurses in Manila during WWII from All Hands, Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, October 1945. Eleven Navy Nurses Decorated for Work During Jap Occupation of Philippines Eleven Navy nurses who were in Manila … Continue reading →

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Lubbers Don’t Live

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The U.S. Navy had their own series of training posters called “Lubbers Don’t Live”. This poster stars Whistlin’ Joe who goes overboard with a swish.   Oh heed the fate of Whistlin’ Joe! // Forgot the life lines were so … Continue reading →

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Saga of a Tanker

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Saga of a Tanker Torpedoed by an Axis submarine, this U.S. tanker became a raging inferno–but crew members fighting heroically quelled the flames and the tanker was towed to port by a U.S. Naval ship. Because her men refused to … Continue reading →

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Guardians of the Sky

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

“Guardians of the Sky” article from C.I.C. (Combat Information Center), U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Vol. I, No. 6, August 1944. Guardians of the Sky

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PBY Catalina Anchor

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Crew instructions for use of the anchor on the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat from Pilot’s Handbook of Flight Operating Instructions, Navy Model PBY-5A Airplanes, U.S. Army Air Forces, August 1945. ANCHOR. (1) TO CAST ANCHOR.   (a) Fit float … Continue reading →

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Sure, You Can See the Skipper

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Source: U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, (“All Hands Magazine”), October 1944.  

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