Various updates

The updates page has been... updated!

I also updated some destroyer pages at ShipCamouflage.Com, including the Bagley, Dunlap, Gridley, and Mahan classes to include links to measures and design sheets we have. That leaves the Farragut class and one last DE class and then we can start looking through it and correcting errors... I'd also like to find more of the Benson class with the reversed pattern 1D.

Single Ship RDF is mostly finished and just needs some of the linking and proof-reading done. After that, maybe I'll finally get to the Kearny damage report I've been talking about for years now....

Cleanup on Isle Three!

As of this post my Seattle NARA directory totals 4,853 images scanned in; photos and textual records. My San Francisco NARA directory is a mere 1,799 images (totaling roughly 61 gigabytes). The point of this is that with that much data there's bound to be stuff that winds up where it shouldn't from time to time.

I found an orphaned directory yesterday that had some 1945 Camouflage documents that I had not posted... they're very similar to others, but contain some more information that might be useful. Since they were so similar I was able to pop both of them online yesterday. I'd already "roadmapped" both this and next month's updates so I'm just popping mention of them here. Without further ado, I bring you:

February 1945: Camouflage Measures 12, 21 and 22 - Instructions for Application of

February 1945: Amphibious Craft - Camouflage Measures.

Next month's updates will have a "action Damage Report" for USS Shaw following the attack on Pearl Harbor and a 1938 document regarding beach landings and "surf training" authored in part by one 1st Lt. Krulak. Both are done and are just waiting with baited breath for the month of July to start.

June Updates

Been busy enough at work that I haven't wanted to work on the computer much on my down time. This weekend was a nice change though and I posted a new document on prewar USN Turret Top colors that I came across in the archives earlier in the day. I also photographed some color chips of paints used to camouflage buildings in WWII... I need the text as well and will post that at some point in the future.

Earlier in the month I had posted two documents regarding the attack on Dutch Harbor to commemorate the anniversary of the attack. An often-overlooked battle.

Otherwise I'm about 3/4 through posting a document on the USS Shaw after Pearl Harbor, one of the first to talk about replacing her bow. Attached with it was a copy of an article about a similar repair done on a British Tanker that had been torpedoed. I found it to be an interesting read.

CL-62 Birmingham War Report

It's mostly done; just need to finish proofing the last three pages:
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/CL62/WarRecord.html

It'll be linked from the main site & updates page later in the week; I need to do some work for Rusty first.

Card fraud is fun!

So, apparently I tried to buy movie tickets in Mexico on Thursday. Bank caught it pretty fast and stopped it, but They were leaving me messages at home like crazy and apparently didn't have my cell phone so I didn't know until later in the day when I tried to get a drink and a snack. Glad I found out before trying to get my car out of the parking garage!

Almost done with the last CL-62 Birmingham document I came across in January and am hoping to have it posted today. Then, for June I have a document or two related to the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor in June of 1942. Also busy working some super secret stuff that should make modelers happy. One of those projects was recently unveiled, but was one I spent time on back in November/December time frame.

Moot point

So... yeah... Martin noticed that I flubbed the date on the memo; I had it as 1944 when it should be 1945. See... don't mess with Martin: he'll get you anyway!

I think Cyndi Lauper and Parliment Parliament-Funkadelic should collaborate. Am I the only one who thinks "She Bop Gun" would rock?

Martin, before you correct me again....

Yes,I did the math wrong again and it was sixty FOUR years ago that Nimitz released this memo.

Thanks again for the first correction though! ;)