Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

Another new scan. Beautiful very large original print of a photo by the great aviation photographer Charles E Brown, of Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish over the RN fleet during the 1937 Coronation Review at Spithead #NavalAviation Apologies for the ignorant picture ed who scrawled on it 🤬

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

On 23 May 1939, the USS Squalus (SS-192), a new Sargo-class submarine, was conducting sea trials off New England when an engine air induction valve failed. usni.org/magazines/p...

Some fun reading tonight in prep for episode 20. Heard about this book listening to the Arms Control Wonk podcast. @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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There's no bling quite like a piece of copper sheathing from the USS #Constitution. I snagged one by placing in this year's CNO Naval History Essay contest. The article is forthcoming in @usniproceedings.bsky.social. It, and those from the rest of the winners, will be worth your time! #WriteFightWin

RIP, Robert Redford. Hollywood star, indie icon. www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-red...

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages

Some good literary news.

SISKEL & EBERT, which premiered #OTD in 1986, had a master class of an opening sequence. Thirty-five seconds, 21 shots, and a flawless establishment of the professional rivalry of two Chicago newspapermen who inspired a generation of film buffs. #FilmSky #TVSky

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

As an archivist, this keeps me up.

I still think this essay I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social is the critical piece I'm most proud to have written. It's on Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece RIFIFI (1955), and I'd be honored if you read it. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...

(Iowa State is a damn miracle! Two top-15 finishes ever, and they outdraw many B1G/SEC teams. All we have to do is make sure ISU fans feel like part of the party, and they'll show out and do some amazing world building. But no, let's create a "super league" instead.)

Sept. 11, 1925: The five Navy aviators who were rescued adrift in their seaplane yesterday after a 9-day odyssey are give a joyous welcome at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. The gaunt but beaming survivors of the San Franciso-to-Hawaii flight are presented with leis by the governor.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

#OTD in 1965, James Stockdale was shot down over North Vietnam and captured. Routinely tortured during his 7.5 years in the "Hanoi Hilton", he disfigured his own face by cutting and beating it so that he could not used for propaganda purposes. He was awarded the MoH in 1976.

Since Kasserine Pass was a topic of discussion today; here are the few pictures labeled as being from that battle on the National Archives' web portal.

I’m sorry, this just looks like an ad for a farm-to-table restaurant for cats.

iowa two minute drill coming up

Witnesses to the surrender on USS Missouri #OTD in 1945 received a souvenir card. Some officials in the U.S. requested the extra copies, but CAPT Stuart Murray insisted they were only for those present. The unused cards were burned, and the printing plates were thrown overboard.

On this day in 1985 the wreck of the Titanic was discovered by Dr Robert Ballard and his team 73 years after she sank. The wreck lies 2.4 miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. #Titanic #MaritimeHeritage

Still one of the most underrated campaigns in American military history

idea: what if instead of Cadillac it was Catillac

Not gonna lie I really didn't think my dissertation on interservice rivalry and the unification debates was going to become relevant again in this specific way

PHOEBE BRIDGERS: it feels like you played a lot more two-high last year STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe

My good people; If you are a wargame director or sponsor lead, this is the podcast you need to make everyone listen to before coming to the game. Thanks to @briankerg.bsky.social, @sebastianbae.bsky.social, and Chris (3 x freinds & amazing colleagues) for this primer. share.google/GF4ANnqOTIpJ...

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

#OTD in 1945, ADM William Halsey ordered over 1,000 carrier-based aircraft to perform a flyby so that the immense Allied naval airpower in the Pacific could be photographed for Operation Tintype. His surface fleet had been photographed days earlier during Operation Snapshot.

I have goosebumps. How the Few Became the Proud is on the 2025 Commandant’s Reading List!!!! Click on “heritage” in this link …https://www.mca-marines.org/2025-commandants-professional-reading-list/ #marinecorps

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Popstar was a documentary

The SM.79 crossing over the ship at about 5.50 is cold. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @navalairhistory.com film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/1285

IJN 1933 special large-scale exercise Gathered large exercise unit Date: August 21-22, 1933 Location: Kisarazu offshore From left to right: Ashigara, Kamoi, Inazuma, Nachi, Hibiki, Nagato, Ikazuchi, Haguro, Fusō, Myōkō, Furutaka, Kirishima, Ōi, Naka, Ise, Sendai, Kiso, Kitakami buff.ly/Lu1zvh5

#OTD in 1958, USS Enterprise (CV-6) made her final voyage as she moved from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the scrapper in New Jersey. FADM William Halsey led an effort to preserve the Big E as a museum but the campaign was unable to raise enough funds to save the carrier.

This is from Appian's account of the Roman civil wars, from the 2nd century AD, but the realities of naval warfare it describes could be from any era:

NERD ASSISTANCE KLAXON Can any of you glorious people recommend any work on the maritime leg of the nuclear triad? Either conceptual on deterrence or related to a particular nation. Trying to gather sources for a cool thing! Thank you!

This week's header image (17-23 Aug): capture of HMS Guerriere by USS Constitution, off Halifax, Nova Scotia, 19 Aug 1812. HMS Guerriere, heavily damaged in the battle, was burnt by her captors. Image: hand-coloured print c1814 (US Navy: Naval History and Heritage Command).

Fascinating. The crew has done this before. #WW2 #HISTORY