12/8/23 Updated 1943 US Navy 40mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Training Video: Loading and Operation
11/12/23 Updated Loading the 16" Guns on Battleships with video and graphic
10/29/23 Updated Photos from D-Day Invasion 1944 and Photos from Pearl Harbor and the Pacific
10/26/23 Updated USS Yorktown CV-10 Video Tour and US Navy Safe Boating Tips in Humor section.
10/24/23 Updated two Japanese bombing related pages: Japanese Bomb Oregon and Japanese Balloon Bombs
10/23/23 Added three new videos to USS Laffey DD-724 Tour page Combat Information Center, Smithsonian Combat Ships, Gun Mount Exhibit
3/21/23 Better quality video for 1989 Cher Recruiting video on USS Missouri BB-63
3/19/23 Medal of Honor videos from Medal of Honor Society Convention in Charleston, SC 2010
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2/26/23 USS Wisconsin BB-64 Transiting the Panama Canal circa 1957-1958 8mm home video
Aviator Slang: one of our most popular pages indexed A-Z
2/21/23 Submarine Emergency Ascent Balloons, 1963
12/21/22 Wal-Mart Greeter, updated with new menu system (Humor section)
12/20/22 Powder Flat aboard USS Alabama, including dented deck from dropped shell
Gene Slover's Page updated with new menu system
Gene Slover's Obituary updated with new menu system
9/26/22 Sailors' Stories: The Calling Inspirational Navy Recruiting Video 90 seconds
9/18/22 Humor: 4th of July Navy Style, Sailors' Thoughts, Find the Submarine,
1946 Carrier Landing instructional cartoon video
9/12/22 Sailors' Stories: Robert Harding: USS Yorktown, , Remembering Midway video
Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Vol 2 Fire Control Table of Contents
9/10/22 Sailors' Stories: Tin Can Sailors Battleship Cove. Ma.
Marble of our Heroes from mine in Vermont to our National Cemeteries
Blue Angels Videos: Currently 7 on this page
9/9/22 Sailors' Stories: Happy 236th Birthday US Navy slide show from 13 October 2011 Page updated.
9/7/22 Main Video Listing page updated: complete listing of all the videos on the site.
Sailors' Stories: Updated: Dave Bray and Madison Rising sings National Anthem.
Sailors' Stories: Updated: Doc Mike breaks 100 at St. Andrews from a wheelchair.
Sailors' Stories: Updated: Elgin Staples Story told by Gary Sinise
9/5/22 Sailors' Stories: Updated Dan Galvin USS Quincy Survivor
Sailors' Stories: Updated Richard Vanden Heuvel rescued B-19 tailgunner
9/4/22 Updated Brian Simic USS Arizona Underwater Re-Enlistment
Updated Memorial Day Videos page
Updated menu: First C-130 "Hercules" Landing on a Carrier by Jim Flatley
9/3/22 Home Page Menu System: At long last, I have the beginnings of a new menu system. As time goes on you will see more and more pages changed over. This is not easy stuff for an old guy, but I'm getting through it. Hope you like it. We get a ton of new visitors on tablets and phones, so this new menu system will look and work much better on those devices.
Search Page: Updated to new menu system and it now produces results only from our website with no ads..YAY!
Sailors' Stories: Seaman Ann Wagner: Boat driver at Pearl Harbor Updated to new top and bottom menu
Sailors' Stories: 1000th Trap D-Cag makes 1000th trap on USS Carl Vinson with family in attendance.
Reunions: Updated page to new menu. Send your ship's reunion info to be posted.
7/15/22 Humor: The Turbo-Encabulator Humor: Very complicated machine explained.
7/6/22 Video USS Cassin Young DD-793 Torpedoes a one minute video detailing the deck mounted torpedoes.
9/16/20 Remembering Midway with rare B/W video Sailors' Stories: Taylor Morris; a story without words Sunset Beach Flag Ceremony Twin Boys connect with WWII Veteran aboard USS Yorktown
9/15/20 Sailors' Stories: Dan Galvin USS Quincy survivor in the water for five hours off Savo Is.
9/13/20 Sailors' Stories: Bob Besal DFC and Bronze Star in Desert Storm, learns his Vought A-7C that had midair while training near St. Augustine, Fl. 1974 is now a reef.
9/6/20 Video: USS Laffey Combat Series, story of the famous battle at Okinawa where she was hit by six kamikazes and four deck bombs.
8/23/20 Sailors' Stories: Senior Chief Sid Busch-Marathon Man 40MM Bofors History USS Yorktown CV10 Video Tour
7/10/20 Destroyer USS Laffey DD-724: Three Video Tour Drydock to Reopening video and photos. Laffey Vet Gerald Bowman returns to his ship
6/14/20 James Payton WWII Tarawa Survivor: Sailors' Stories
6/12/20 Chapter 5 Turbine Operation Engineering, Operation and Maintenance, OP 820 40MM Antiaircraft Gun 40MM Machine Gun Mechanism 1943
6/11/20 Table of Trigonometric Functions
6/10/20 The Infamous Toilet Paper Letter 1942 USS Skipjack OP-770 Range Tables for 16"/50 Caliber Gun, Mark D October 1951 (Part 1), Chapter 10 Part D Amplidyne follow-system Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Automatic Control Equipment
6/7/20 Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Chapter XII: ARMOR: Historical Development, Class A Armor, Class B Armor, Light Armor
6/4/20 56 Extraordinary Photos from D-Day 1944 and 75th Anniversary in 2009, Chapter 20 Main Battery Systems Part E Main-Battery Plotting Room Part F Turret Fire Control Equipment Naval Ordanance and Gunnery Volume 1 1957 NAVPERS 1097-A : Index Table of Contents
6/3/20 Chapter 20 Main Battery Systems Part A General, Part B Typical Systems Part C Gun Directors Part D Fire Control Stations From Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
6/2/20 Quotes of the Month All Hands Mag.September 1945. New US Navy Ships 1939 Including Battleships USS Iowa and USS New Jersey. The Gooney Birds of Midway Island Life Saving Fishing Instructions For the South Pacific March 1943, FR-1 Fireball Navy Unveils New Jet Fighter November 1945
6/1/20 Bloomers, US Navy Trivia: Assorted links from 1899 through early 1940's
5/30/20 OP-2074 Computer Mark 48 Mod 1 September 1956, Chapter 20G Main Battery Systems (Naval Ordanance and Gunnery Chapter 2 Fire Control)
5/29/20 NAVORD-769: Config of three gun turrets USS New Jersey 1968, Temperature of Guns After Firing, Naval 14" Railway Guns 1918 France
5/28/20 Ernest Borgnine: I Am the American Sailor, and ,
Military Funerals and Burial at Sea, OP911 20MM Antiaircraft Gun
5/26/20 Two Memorial Day Videos, Selsyn and Synchro Devices
5/24/20 Holystoning 101 on USS Missouri
5/23/20 Take 'er Down 1954 Video Submarine History, The Day a Japanese Plane Bombed Oregon True story from 1942, Loading the 16" Guns (Video and Graphic)
5/22/20 Vought V-173 Flying Pancake video, Chapter 26E Gun Fire Control System Mark 56, Page 4 , Chapter 26E Gun Fire Control System Mark 56, Page 5, USS Midway: The Toilet Bomb, Hawaiian Drydock Fishing 1946
5/21/20 Submarine Escape Trunk and Survival Suits, Chapter 26E Gun Fire Control System Mark 56, Page 2 , Top Ten Pages, Chapter 26E Gun Fire Control System Mark 56, Page 3
5/20/20 Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Vol 2: Chapter 26A The Fire Control Problem, Chapter 26B Basic Elements of Lead-Computing Sights, Chapter 26C Gun Sight Mark 15, Chapter 26D Gun Fire Control System Mark 63, Chapter 26E Gun Fire Control System Mark 56, Page 1
5/19/20 USS Constitution (humor), Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Vol 2 Fire Control Index
5/18/20 Coastal and Riverine Craft Armament,
5/17/20 USS Barb: The Sub That Sank a Train, USS Missouri Video of Transit to Drydock 2009, Naval Ordnance 1937
5/16/20 Astounding USS Missouri Photo, USS Missouri Makeover 2009, USS Missouri Transit to Drycock video
5/15/20 US Navy Safe Boating Tips, Reduction Gears and Related Equipment
5/13/20 Chapter-7 Reduction Gear and Related Equipment
5/12/20 Pages updated and links checked: USN Guns, Ammunition, Design & Testing and USN Gunnery and Fire Control
5/10/20 New page added to R&R section: USS Hawkbill: Submarine built in a basement.
5/3/20 I've taken the website update info off the front page just to clean it up a bit.
Since I started working with Gene, many years ago, we each 'did our own thing', coding our own pages. I tried to give the overall site a similar look with the lavendar background, adding the menu and the videos. Many of Gene's original pages still have the white background and are coded with methods no longer used.
At the request of countless 'youngsters', whom I really want to reach, I am in the process of re-coding the entire site. It will become "responsive", which means it can shrink and grow to fit the device being used. Since so many now use their phones, it's important that the site be usable on that small screen.
First, as a tribute to Gene, the site now has a new header and blue background. That's Gene when he served and in later retirement years. He never used an apostrophe in the title, so as kind of an 'inside joke' I continue that spelling, only the anchor has been added 'for effect'. I think Gene would approve.
Due to other volunteer obligations over the past few years I have not had time to work on the site and have only done minor updates. That's changing now.
If you see a blue background with the new header, those pages have been recoded. I am working my way through the menu from left to right, so those are the newest pages. The lavendar background with all caps text header are the last version and the white background pages are Gene's original coding.
In between updating pages, I will be adding new ones and also high on my list is to re-work the menu system, so it is reponsive also. I am working my way through almost 1000 pages, so it will be a process, as they say.
The guest book has been updated and now working again. All comments welcomed along with contsructive comments. If you find any mistakes or problems with any pages, please drop me an email directly.
The search pages have been updated to stay on the site and (hopefully) won't show any ads.
For any of you who have subscribed to my new pages, you should be getting an email or news reader update whenever I add new pages. You can subscribe here and you will get an email whenever a new page is added or one is updated. Your name will never be sold or shared and you can unsubscribe at any time. I have a ton of material in backlog which I hope you will find of interest and share with your shipmates, family, friends and associates.
Thank you all for your support. I know Gene is smiling.
JJ
