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Category Archives: aircraft carriers

United States Naval Memorial in DC

Down in DC to visit the Spy Museum today, and I have to admit it was pretty cool. I’d been resisting a visit to this place, mostly because it is a pay museum in a city full of free offerings. Gotta love all those Smithsonians. There were more than few WW2 entries in the mix […]

More on Battle 360 on the History Channel

From reader JS (used with permission): As a carrier buff with particular interest in the USS Enterprise and Solomon campaigns, I was excited with the news of The History Channel’s Battle360 project and awaiting this expensive and multipart series with much anticipation. Indeed, Big E, a gallant ship and crew, served in every major campaign […]

Lawrence Beall-Smith

Scrolling through the archives of the Naval Historical Center, I revisited their collection of period artwork this evening. And it is, in a word, awesome. Many paintings of conflict are somberly painted, with good reason. But there are others, like this painting by Lawrence Beall-Smith, that show color in interesting ways. Having grown up watching […]

ww2db.com Featured Image, #1

The ww2file is pleased to announce the ww2db.com Featured Image partnership. The idea behind this post (and the weekly posts to come) is to highlight ww2db.com’s collection of 3500 plus photos, many culled from the National Archives, Library of Congress, the US Naval Historical Center, and other research institutions. Okay, so here we go. When […]