FLATTOP SAILOR

 OPINION....                                           Back in the 1960's we worried about a Nuclear attack on a Carrier Battle Group, we trained for it, we in reality "knew" it was an all hands lost 6,000 sailor death sentence, the "BrownBear" nuclear bombers flew overhead almost daily, making us seconds away from being nuclear snow. 5 or so Navy ships, 100 aircraft, all "nuked and hot", or lying on the ocean floor, worse than Pearl, worse personell loss than 911, more than the entire Iraq war, more than Afghanistan, all lost in the matter of just a few "MINUTES". Wait for it...today is 1 April, 2023, Taiwan is building, as a "Flattop Sailor" in the South China sea...2023, our LGBTQ white rage Navy and leader Milley should make you sleep easy at night.

  I begin my FLATTOP SAILOR Treatise here , in around the years of 1937-1938 , and at a time when we in the US had 3 working USN Carriers of the Yorktown Class and one smaller Wasp Class carrier, this was before before Pearl Harbor, and before the Essex Carrier design class came to be. As of April 2023, we have built 80 US Aircraft carriers…I list them here by design class.  Remember ... the US Navy records and the historians both make a big mistake in failing to mention that of the 34 Essex carriers built and commissioned after 1942,  not all were in reality, of the Essex class… 12 were of the long-hull TICONDEROGA class ! only 13 short-hull Essex carriers were ever built.  NOTE: CV1 through CVB57 were all originally built as straight deck carriers, those shown with a CV “A” denotation were then later converted to become angle deck carriers in the 1950-1955 era, PLUS, those three Essex and three Ticonderoga carriers with the SCB-27C sub-titles were were 2 foot wider, 3,000 tons hea

The unknown earlier attacks on Pearl Harbor… in 1932, and again in 1938, (long before 1941); both are unknown to most. When was the first surprise attack by carrier aircraft on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii? The obvious answer is the Japanese carrier attack of December 7th, 1941. But what about the two earlier attacks, February 7th, 1932, and again in 1938 . . . . . . . ? Early on the Sunday morning of February 7, 1932, (same scenario as in 1941), the American aircraft Carriers USS Saratoga CV2 and USS Lexington CV3 launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Instead of high explosive bombs, they dropped sacks of flower and scored direct hits on the airfields and all the ships in the harbor.​ The surprise attack was part of “Grand Joint Exercise No. 4” and was intended to simulate a Japanese attack on the naval base. The mock-attack was designed to test Pearl’s defenses and assess its vulnerability to an attack.​The attacking force was under the command of Rear Admiral H

  On 09 September 1942, at about 06:00 AM Pacific War Time, a lookout on the US Oregon coast spotted a single incoming aircraft. The small, unmarked Japanese Yokosuka E14Y floatplane Biplane sputtered and popped as it flew through the dawn mist. It slowly made its way over a heavily wooded area which was known to be particularly prone to forest fires, and dropped a pair of cylinders from a low altitude. Soon a column of smoke became visible from the forest as the strange plane turned around, its distinct engine noise fading back towards the ocean.​ Immediately, Howard “Razz” Gardner– the lookout who had first spotted the aircraft– dove into the thick forest to battle the developing blaze. By the time the larger support crew penetrated the woods with their firefighting equipment four and a half hours later, Gardner and a fellow lookout had managed to wrestle the fire into submission. As the crew helped to mop up the last of the smoldering mess, the investigators f

The HMS VICTORIOUS (R38) PAGES WILL START POSTING SOON, ALONG WITH THE USS ROBIN STORY. (I just made contact with a Victorious sailor, and will begin communications soon)  In late 1942 when the United States Navy found itself in a precarious situation in the war with the Japanese Empire. At the  Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands , the aircraft carrier USS  Hornet  was sunk and the USS  Enterprise  was severely damaged, temporarily putting it out of action. That left the USN with only one fleet carrier to carry on the South Pacific. Enter the USS ROBIN  CV? in May of 1943, during Operation Cartwheel, which was intended to isolate and neutralize the Japanese base on Rabaul, a second fleet carrier suddenly appeared beside the only remaining operational US carrier, the USS  Saratoga , which operated out of Noumea, New Caledonia.  This new fleet carrier was being called the USS  Robin , but it was not listed in the USN inventory, and it couldn’t be The USS  Essex , which was nowhere near com