“This Can’t Be Good”

                                                   10 JULY 1975                                           “THIS CAN’T BE GOOD” “This can’t be good,” Chief Paul DeLange thought to himself as he stood on the deck of the attack submarine USS FINBACK (SSN-670) early this morning overseeing the aft line handlers.  Disco music blared Read More

Pilot Down!

                                              2 SEPTEMBER 1944                                                   PILOT DOWN! By September of 1944 the Allied advance across the Pacific reached the Bonin Islands, an 1800-mile-long chain that includes Iwo Jima.  At 0715 this morning, a squadron of Grumman TBF Avengers took off from USS SAN Read More