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Range-finding and Fire Control – Plotting Your Demise

This week in the second of the months Patreon selections we take a look at some of the basic principles[…]

Greyhounds of the Sea Greyhounds of the Sea is a documentary outlining the history of the U.S. Navy Destroyers, stealthy[…]

USS Oriskany: The USS Oriskany: she was a fearsome presence in the wars at Korea and Vietnam. She hasn’t served[…]

KNM Fritjof Nansen Film starts at 0:11. How much do we really know about Somali piracy? Several compelling stories from[…]

MGB 81 We have the immense privilege of getting behind the wheel (and guns) of MGB 81, the Spitfire of[…]

Oldest Surviving Battleship The USS Texas, oldest surviving dreadnought battleship and flagship of the Lone Star State, is today’s subject.[…]

Aviator Training Film In this first reel of the U.S. Navy training film This Is It, likely from the early[…]

Abandon Ship – US Navy A wartime US Navy training film, narrated by Mike Wallace, that demonstrates techniques for emergency[…]

USS Silversides It’s 1942 and the USS Silversides, a U.S. submarine submerged in the Pacific, is frantically trying to dodge[…]

Secret Weapon invented by the Italian Navy During the Second World War British warships in Gibraltar and Alexandria were attacked[…]