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Showing posts with label USN. Show all posts
Friday, 22 May 2026

The 2026 Royal Navy - 1/3000 Scale

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I am big on WWI and WWII 1/3000 world navies, from anything that could fight in either, so that includes a few pre-dreadnoughts as well as h...
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Monday, 27 April 2026

Four Books on Midway

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Stemming from an interest that was cultivated from an early exposure to XTR's (Command Magazine) Victory at Midway, I have been fascinat...
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Sunday, 23 March 2025

Navy Fleet Design and the Lessons of (Science Fiction) the Trillion Credit Squadron Talk: 2020 by Phil Pournelle

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Note also see future post:  https://exiledfog.blogspot.com/2025/03/note-to-self-trillion-credit-squadron.html I was intrigued with the follo...
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Saturday, 22 March 2025

Early WWII USN Naval Action - Four Stacker (USS Edsell), The Dancing Mouse takes on the IJN!

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The early war USN Pacific actions stand between heroic, tragic and those that stray into the foolhardy. Caught strategically off guard the A...
Friday, 14 March 2025

The Essex Class - Basing the War Battle Winners

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Their time has come, the war winning class of USN aircraft carriers which made it simply impossible for the IJN to get back into the war aft...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

USN WW2 "Heavy Metal" Battleships 1/3000

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The USN certainly had a lot of heavy metal on the books at the start of WW2. Admittedly most of it was left in a re-conditioned burning stat...
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Friday, 21 February 2025

iPhone "Pacific War2 Game - Nice Little Time Waster

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This is not a simulation or accurate representation of Pacific Warfare, but it is a lovely timewasting piece of fun that is a little bit lik...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

52 Fletchers - 1/3000 Navwar

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Dating back to the time I bought "The Battle of the Philippine Sea" Battle Pack from Navwar, I always had a few of these destroyer...
Thursday, 23 March 2023

Audible Book: All Hands Down - USS Scorpion

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I decided to go for a quicker and lighter Audible book (in length, though not necessary in topic), but keeping to the naval theme, this time...
Friday, 24 February 2023

Worthington's Coral Sea Solitaire Game

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I immediately banked this one when it came out as an instant buy, a "must have", partly because I would simply cry buckets if it w...
Monday, 20 June 2022

Black Seas and the USN

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Here's my story. Many, many moons ago I purchased Black Seas and expected to dive into the "age of sail" in 1/700 scale and be...
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Saturday, 1 January 2022

Xmas Presents: Naval Aviation and an Osprey Submarine Game

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From underneath the Xmas tree I was given these little crackers. Two Blood Red Skies (BRS) Midway expansion packs (IJN and USN carrier naval...
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Monday, 13 December 2021

Midway Aerial Combat - Warlord Games Starter Set

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I hummed and hared and at first said "no" (with a surprising almost believable inner voice), as I was already collecting the same ...
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Thursday, 12 August 2021

Painting Pacific War (1942) Douglas Dauntless Version SDB-3: Reference Notes

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While "going through my loft" in search of the 1/48th scale Airfix Spitfire Vb (now proudly hanging from a son's bedroom ceili...
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Thursday, 22 October 2020

Corona Virus Project 2c: USN DDs - Completed, Remembering when ...

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This seemed such a long time ago now (see below, early war USN destroyers for the Coral Sea, Guadalcanal and Midway operations):  I sense a ...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2020

You Tube - Little Wars : Naval Battles of Guadalcanal 1942

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 Another interesting video pertaining the the US - Japanese Pacific War. This time analysis from the US recreational wargaming community. St...
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Saturday, 8 August 2020

Amazing You Tube Video: US Naval War College

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What a find! Courtesy of using the same search technique as my youngest son came up trumps with this series of videos (old horse, new trick)...
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Monday, 15 June 2020

Coral Sea US Navy Task Force 17

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Task Force 17.5 Carrier Group: USS Lexington (Lady Lex - CV 2) and the USS Yorktown (CV5) surrounded by a bevy of four escorting destroyers...
Monday, 25 May 2020

Corona Virus Project - 2 Series USN a-e: Finally Completed

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OK so the better part of the US Pacific Fleet is ready to field (see below, a lot of varnished [Satin Varnish] USN DD and a few more CA and ...
Sunday, 24 May 2020

Corona Virus Project 2e : USN Guadalcanal CA/LC-AAs

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Some more 'seemingly' random USN cruisers - which almost finishes off my early war US naval fleet. There is a purpose behind this mo...