Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

PADDLE WHEEL FLATTOPS OF THE GREAT LAKES

Whenever I picture in my mind the great coming of age of the aircraft carrier, I think of the gargantuan fleet carriers of the US Navy in the Second World War—rust streaked, heaving in cold grey seas, driving through heavy swells under…

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Bryan Hayter Bryan Hayter

BLIND FAITH

On September 23, 1953, a little remembered but near-tragic incident took place on the high seas. As one of the 42 pilots involved in this terrifying event, it remains strong in my memory. ..

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

REVENGE OF THE SHANG

It’s Christmas Eve and though just early evening, the dim light of winter is long receded, replaced by the orange vapour darkness of an urban night. Outside my house a Canadian hibernal front descends

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

BODY ENGLISH — The Science and the Art of the LSO

You are standing at the very edge of a steel cliff, high above the Indian Ocean. You look backwards across a hot steel deck shimmering in the 100ºF heat to the vast expanse of pale white-blue ocean….

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Mori Juzo — Translated by Nick Vogue Mori Juzo — Translated by Nick Vogue

THE MIRACULOUS TORPEDO SQUADRON

Mori Juzo was a torpedo bomber pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the aviators who participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1973, Juzo wrote his autobiography…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

FASCIST FLATTOPS

Somewhere 55 kilometres off the coast of Poland, beneath the dark, cold waters of the Baltic Sea, lies the colossal ghost of a haughty dream of world dominance…

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