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INDEX OF

 "THE ROUNDTABLE FORUM" NEWSLETTER

 

 

This page is a complete index of "The Roundtable Forum" newsletter, which was the Roundtable’s method for interaction between its Battle of Midway veterans and the rest of the membership for seven years.  338 issues were published between May 2004 and September 2011.  The newsletter remains a prime resource for information about the battle that comes straight from the guys who were there, as well as from many of the battle’s best known authors and historians.

 

To find any reference listed in this index, note the issue number, then click the link provided at the beginning of the section for that year.  There is a separate section for each calendar year.

 

References ending in “en” or “fn” mean that the subject will be found in the Editor’s Notes or Forum Notes section at the end of that issue.

 

Click here for all issues of the newsletter in any year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011

 

The issue number for each listing is 2011-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issue 2011-04.

 

To read any issue from 2011, click here.

 

 

Topic                                     Issue No.

 

 

Air Force Magazine, BOM article in:   04

Anderson, Gen. Earl E., USMC-Ret:   16, 17

Anderson, Edward, VB-6 radioman-gunner:   02en

anniversary, BOM, 69th:

            Charleston, SC (USS Yorktown CV-10):   13en

            Ft. Gordon, GA (NIOC):   13en

Ft. Meade, MD (NIOC):   15

Pensacola, FL:   05, 06

            Monterey, CA:   08en, 09en

            Orlando. FL:   12en

Pearl Harbor:   15en

            San Francisco, CA:   05, 16

            Washington, DC:  08en, 13en, 16en, 17en

anniversary, BOM, 70th:

            veterans, Illinois, information wanted:   20en

art, aviation, Power Point slide show:   16, 17

Attack on Pearl Harbor, The (book by Alan Zimm):   13en, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20

 

B-25s on the Hornet:   07

B-26 aircrew interviews (You-Tube video link):   10

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (video):   01en

Battle of Midway, The (book by Craig Symonds):   13en

Best, Richard, VB-6 CO, photo wanted:   07en

books, free for members:   05

“Borrowed Glory” (embellished BOM vet record):   12

 

Coronado, CA, naval aviation history in:   05

Childers, Lloyd, VT-3 radioman-gunner:   21

Crisman, Bryan, USS Yorktown disbursing officer:   03

 

Days That Shook the World: the Battle of Midway (video):   18

DeLorenzo, CAPT Frank L. “DeLo”:     14, 15, 17en

diary, war, VB-3 and VT-8:   03

divine intervention:   21

 

e-mail, security problem:   19, 20

experience, combat, carrier:   15

 

Facebook, the Roundtable on:   18en

Ferrier, CDR Harry H. (VT-8 TBF aircrew):    18

Fisher, Clayton, VB-8 pilot:   01en, 05

Ford, John, commemorative postage stamp:   20en

 

Gaido, Peter, VS-6 gunner:   16

Gay, George, VT-8 pilot:   02, 04en

Gillis, David B., CDR, MC, USNR-Ret:   02

Graetz, Ronald, VT-6 radioman-gunner:   03

Great Georgia Air Show:   05en

Grist, MSgt Walter C. (VMSB-241 mechanic):   19

 

Harada, Kaname, Zero pilot:   19

History of U.S. Naval Operations in WWII:   (see Morison)

Horne, LCDR Philip A. (SOC pilot):   18en

 

imposters, BOM vet:   11

 

Joe Rochefort’s War (book by Elliot Carlson):   (see Rochefort)

 

Kight, LCDR Otis G., VF-42 flight deck seaman:   20

Kleiss, N. J. “Dusty”, VS-6 pilot:   13en

 

Leonard, William N. (VF-3/42 pilot):   06, 07

Life Magazine WW2 photos:   09

Lovelace, LCDR Donald, VF-3 XO:   16

 

Manning, Sea1/c J. D., Avenger gunner:   11

Marines at Midway:   16

Marine Corps aerial navigator at Midway:   11, 12

message, annual, CNO:   11en

message, Memorial Day:   13

message, the Roundtable’s oldest:   18

Midway (1976 movie):   15

Midway (novel by Donald Sanford):   10en

Midway after the battle:   19

Midway, Japan’s “Bridge Too Far”:   06, 09. 10

Morison, Samuel Eliot:   03en, 04, 05, 06

 

Nagumo, VADM Chuichi:   09, 10, 11

Naval Aviation News, 40th anniversary issue:  13

Neptune’s Inferno (book):   03en

No Right to Win (book):

signed copies:   21en

updates:   05en

 

PBY, restoration by Commemorative Air Force:   21en

photos, BOM:

            codebreakers:   13, 15, 16

            from Midway Atoll:   12, 13

            high resolution:   20

            in Life Magazine:   11, 12

plans, Japanese, for Midway:   06

PowerPoint software:   17

 

radius, combat, Japanese estimates re USN aircraft:   06, 07, 08

Refighting the Pacific War (book by James Bresnahan):   15en, 19, 20

reviews, books, on-line:   09

Ring, Stanhope, Hornet Air Group commander:   17

Rochefort, Joseph (officer in charge, CIU Pearl Harbor)

            in Shattered Sword Yahoo Group:   see photos, BOM, codebreakers

Joe Rochefort’s War (book by Elliot Carlson):   08en, 12en

Roundtable, 15th year on the Internet:   21

Roundtable Forum, The, back issues on line:   10

 

Santa Claus in February:   (see books, free for members)

Sobel, Alvin (VS-5 gunner):   15en

Springer, Will (Enterprise aviation mechanic):   15en

statistics, BOM veterans:   13, 15, 16

Storm of War, The (book by Andrew Roberts):   18en

survey, member, BOM’s most memorable scene:   01, 02, 03

Sydney, Australia, submarine attack at:   07

 

TBD Devastator:

combat radius:   11

found sunken off San Diego:   06, 07en

third man in:   02

TBF Avenger, Japanese reaction to:   21

Thach, John “Jimmie”, VF-3 CO:   03, 04

Tinker, Gen. Clarence, USAAF:   19

tool, search, on-line, Roundtable:   07, 08en

Tora, Tora, Tora (1970 movie):   17en

tours, Pearl Harbor and Wake Island (70th anniversary):   16en

tsunami, Japan earthquake, effect on Midway Atoll:   07en

 

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

            Battle of the Eastern Solomons:   15

            sent to the scrap yard:   15

USS Hammann (DD-412):   09

USS Hornet (CV-8)

            1943 Navy Dept. film:   04

B-25s on:  (see B-25s)

deck log:   01, 02en

pilots in 11 June 1942 photo:   05

            USS Hornet (CV-12)

                        BOM scale model display:   17

USS Spruance (DDG-111):   21en

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

            flag flying during BOM:   13

            Yorktown CV-5 Club:   12en

 

vets, BOM, salute to:   03

vets, BOM, surviving VT pilots (Featured Link):   07

vets, BOM, wanted by WTOK-TV:   11en

video, You-Tube, BOM in computer graphics:   10en

VMSB-241 pilot photo:   16, 17

 

War and Remembrance (book review):   04

War, The (book by Ward & Burns):   16, 17

World War 2 history website:   07

 

Yahoo group, Shattered Sword:   05en, 13

 

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2010

 

The issue number for each listing is 2010-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issue 2010-32,

 

To read any issue from 2010, click here.

 

 

Topic                                     Issue No.

 

advance knowledge of Kido Butai:   32

Ady, Howard (BOM PBY pilot):   02, 03, 22, 37

alphabet, phonetic:   14

anniversary, BOM, 68th:

            Camp Patriot, Kuwait:   20

            Dahlgren, VA:   20 

Jacksonville (Mayport), FL:   08, 20, 21

            Norfolk, VA:   11

            Pearl Harbor/Midway:   11, 18, 19

            Pensacola, FL:   20

            San Diego, CA:   18, 19

            San Francisco:   19

            USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77):   20

            Washington, DC:   17

anniversary, BOMRT, 13th:   35, 36, 37

artifacts wanted, BOM:  see USS Midway

 

B-17s at Midway:   15

Bass, ENS Horace, VF-42 pilot:   32

Battle of Midway, The

            new book for juveniles:   18en

            possible new 3D movie:   29en

Bluejacket: In Harms Way from Guadalcanal to Tokyo (book review):   29

Brodie, Judson, USS Yorktown vet:   32

 

CAP, Japanese, vs. Japanese AA:   40, 41

chart, bearing and distance, BOM:   13

Cheek, Tom (VF-3 pilot):   22

civilians on Midway:   17

Corl, Harry, VT-3 pilot:   22

Cotton, Bernard (BOM Hornet veteran):   26, 27

 

Dawson, AVCM Harry B.:   28

DeLorenzo, CAPT Frank L.:   25en

Dickinson, LT Clarence, VS-6 pilot:   31

Dive Bomber (1941 movie):   16, 17

documentary, Japanese, WW2:   09, 10

 

Earnest, Albert K., BOM TBF pilot:   10en

Eichorn, Raymond “Jerry”, Yorktown vet:   13, 14

enlisted and warrant officer pilots:  34

Epps, Richard C., USS Aylwin vet:   36, 37

Esders, Wilhelm, VT-3 pilot:   21

 

Ferrier, Harry, BOM TBF vet:   04

Fox, Ed, BOM Marine:   23

 

g-mail hint, cancel “conversation view”:   40en

Gallaher, W. Earl (VS-6 CO):   08en

Geddes, Bel, BOM dioramas:   05

Gee, Roy P., Sr., VB-8 pilot:   01, 03

getting the details right:   38, 39, 40

Goldsmith, George, VS-6 pilot:   41

Gray, James (VF-6 C.O. at Midway):  01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 22

Great Georgia Air Show, The:   33en

 

HMS Barham explosion:   39

host, Internet, change for the Roundtable:   10, 11

 

intelligence, signal, BOM:   19

Isom, Dallas W. (author, Midway Inquest):   37en

 

Jaccard, Richard, VS-6 pilot:   16

 

Kaga (Japanese carrier):   13

Kaseberg, Dan, VT-3 veteran:   41en

Kido Butai

bomb hits on:   28, 29, 30

in two groups toward Midway:   19, 20

Kleiss, Dusty (VS-6 pilot):   23

knowledge of TF 16 & 17 on Midway Atoll:   09, 10

Kraver, Ted (“Santa”):   08, 09

 

Laser, Sam, Yorktown vet:   36, 37

library, Midway, on our web site:   37

Life magazine photos of Midway:   06, 10

Linzey, Stanford (Yorktown vet):   02en, 03en, 04, 06, 10en

logos, squadron, on USS Hornet aircraft:    11, 12

 

map, Midway, accurate:   16

Massey, LCDR Lance, VT-3:   35

Melo, Frank, B-26 crewman at Midway:   27

Midway (1976 movie):   17en, 18, 29en

Midway 1942 (book by Mark Stille):   40

midway1942.org website:   33, 36

“My god, we cannot survive!”:   32, 33

 

National World War II Museum, New Orleans:   29en

 

Pacific, The (book by Hugh Ambrose):   02, 08en, 15

painting, SBD, sunken:   31

painting, VT, on our home page:   41

PBYs at Midway:   15, 16

Perry, ACRM Leo, VT-3:   35

pictures, BOM story, models and Photoshop:   17

pilots, enlisted:   14

pilots, VB-8, July 1942:   15

photos, BOM vets:   17, 19, 20

plan, communications, BOM:   14

Planes of Fame air show and museum:   14, 21

predictions of the Pacific War:   27, 28, 29, 31, 32

 

radiomen needed by CINCPAC:   12

Redman brothers:   29, 30

reflections on 13 years: see anniversary, BOMRT.

report, after-action, VT-3:   21, 22, 23

reports, enemy contact, from Midway’s aircraft:   03, 09

rewriting the BOM:   36

Roundtable, the, as a resource for historians:   18

 

SBD in combat, the:   32, 33

SBD on cover of No Right to Win:   40, 41

Sheedy, ENS Daniel, accident on USS Hornet:  (see USS Hornet)

Showers, RADM D. M. (Mac):   27en

sites, communications intelligence:   14,15

stories, BOM vets:   17

survey, member, BOM’s most memorable scene:   38, 39

Spruance, RADM Raymond, fitness report for the BOM:   24

Swan, Robert (VP-44 pilot/navigator):   14

 

TCM (TV channel) movies on Memorial Day weekend:   16

torpedo data chart:   41

 

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

memorial association:   18en

pilots who transferred to USS Wasp:   31

USS Lexington (CV-2), Link of the Week photo:   22, 23, 24, 25

USS Hornet (CV-8)

            announcement dated 7 June 1942:   34, 36

commissioning photos:   16

            Doolittle raid:   26

            launch photo on 4 June 1942:   33

            Sheedy accident:   32

USS Midway (CV-41) Museum:  BOM artifacts wanted:   30

USS Panay, sunk in 1937:   31

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

abandoned too early?:   38, 39

fuel lines at Coral Sea:   25, 27

Japanese ship names seen in ready room:   32, 33

pilots photo, Tongatabu:   39

vets on the Roundtable:   24

 

vets, Midway, salute to:   37

VF-3 F4F landing on Hornet:   32, 33

VF-6 “War Record”:   01

VF-42 annual reunion:   11, 19

Victory At Sea DVD:   39en

VT-3 after-action report:   21, 22

VT-8 plaque at Navy Memorial:   31

VT surviving pilots on 4 June 1942:   34en

 

Waldron’s turn:   12, 13

website, new, BOM:  see midway1942.org

Weis, Werner, VT-3 pilot:   21, 22

Wilhelm, CDR Ralph “Kaiser”:   33en

Whirlwind (book by Barrett Tillman):   01en

 

Yahoo e-mail problem:   16en

 

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2009

 

The issue number for each listing is 2009-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issue 2009-01 and three others.

 

To read any issue from 2009, click here.

 

 

Topic                                     Issue No.

 

A Dawn Like Thunder (book review):   01, 06fn, 07, 34

Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader:   24fn

Air Force (1943 movie):   21

Akagi, attack upon:   45, 46

Akagi images:   20

Analysis of U.S. vs. Japanese CV and Air Operations:   03

Annapolis, BOM commemoration at:   15, 19

anniversary, 67th, reports:   23, 24, 25

Archer, Theodore R.:   35fn

Attacking the Soryu (painting by Keith Hill):   07, 12

At War With the Wind (book re Kamikazes):   18fn

audio program featuring Mac Showers:   19

audio programs on USNI web site:   18fn, 24fn

 

B-17s on Midway Atoll:   02, 44, 45

back issues on-line:   09

Battle for Midway, The (TV documentary):   22

Beyond Pearl Harbor (book review):   09

Bridger, John D. (VB-3 pilot):   05

bookmarks (computer hint):   08

Brannon, ENS Charles, BOM TBF pilot, artifacts:   41

Brown, Richard, CTF-17 staff radioman:   45fn

browser, Firefox:   06fn, 08, 36fn

browser, Internet Explorer:   08

browser, refresh to get updated page:   24fn, 31fn

 

care for seniors (war veterans):   07fn

cockpit, open:   08, 09

“Commanders at War” (TV documentary):   07fn, 08

consequences of the BOM:   16

Coral Sea lessons ignored at Midway?:   23, 24

 

damage control in 1942:   17, 18, 19

“Decisions at Midway” by James Gray:   48

defending the atoll:   16, 18

DeLorenzo, CAPT Frank L.:   30

Destination Point Luck (USN BOM video):   01

Dive Bomber (1941 movie, video clips from):   17

documentary, Japanese, Zero fighter:   (see Zero)

documents, BOM, reclassified:   01  (see also 2008 index)

Doolittle, video clips:   35

Doussel. CAPT Will, USN-Ret, web site:   10fn

 

Earhart, Amelia, PBS documentary:   35fn

Earnest, CAPT Albert K., USN-Ret:   43

 

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions):   34fn

Fear and Loathing in the Post-Naval Era (Proceedings article):   23fn

Fighting Lady, The (documentary video):   01fn

Fisher, CDR Clayton E., USN-Ret:   10, 34fn, 37fn, 38

font size, adjusting:   12fn

Forbes, CAPT James M., USN-Ret (VS-8 pilot):   11

Ford, John, Battle of Midway film in high resolution:   42

 

Gallant Hours, The  (1960 movie re Adm. Halsey):   02fn, 03fn

Gay, George, 1943 Navy Dept. interview:   21

Google Alerts:   03fn

Greaves, John, SOC painting:   01fn

 

Halsey’s Bluff (book review):   20

Harwood, LT Bruce, VF-8 & VT-8 pilot:   35

Hawkinson, Chris, BOM web site:   16, 42

Hendrick, Robert, 6th MarDefBn veteran:   34

high school reunion in the water, a:   09

Hiryu dive bombers (how they found the Yorktown):   21

historian’s dilemma, a:   40

Hooked (book by Clayton Fisher):   26fn, 27, 37fn, 40fn, 41fn, 43

How I got a new SBD:   10

 

I Bombed Pearl Harbor (movie review):   47

 

Japanese Story of the Battle of Midway, The:   26

Japanese strategy for Midway:   19, 20

 

Kido Butai, color photos:   (see photos)

Kido Butai, finding:   44

Kido Butai video and photo map:   24

Kido Butai: what K.B. should have done:  (see What...)

 

Last Flight of Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., USNR, The (book):   25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34fn, 35fn, 37fn, 38

last round fired at Midway:   43

logbook, VT-8:   45

Lorenz, Allen J., MM1/c, USS Yorktown:   23fn

“Lost Letter of Midway” (by Stanhope Ring):   39, 40, 41, 42

luring the enemy to Midway:   40

 

Marine patrol on Midway (LIFE photograph):   28, 29, 30

Melbourne, Australia, Japanese attack:   20fn

Memorial Day message:   33fn

Midway (1976 movie):   16

“Midway has no water”:   34

Mig-15, Mig-17 photos:   01fn

Miracle at Midway by Charles E. Mercer:   45

Mitscher, Marc, performance at Midway:   13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37, 38

 

Naval Historical Center, new on-line resource:   10

Navy Crosses for the Hornet air group:   42

 

officer and enlisted airmen:   14, 15

 

Pacific, The (HBO miniseries):   27, 36

paint, burning, on carriers:   44

PBY rescues during the BOM:   13

PBY shot down in the BOM:   28

Pearl Harbor and Midway tour canceled:   21

Pearl Harbor article by Sherman Miles:   02fn

pennant, admiralty, for USS Enterprise:   (see USS Enterprise)

Pentagon Web Radio:   20fn

photos, color, Kido Butai and other ships:   26, 27

plans, battle; enemy carriers expected in 2 groups:   30fn

“Promoted to Obscurity”:   41

 

reports, contact, enemy, from carrier air groups:   29, 30, 31, 32

reports, Midway, Yorktown, and Nautilus on-line:   31

Rochefort and Nimitz:   04, 05, 06, 07, 08

Roundtable Forum, The, new format:   01, 02, 04fn

reunion, USS Hornet:   32fn

 

“Santa Claus” (book giveaway):   08, 11

SB2C Helldiver, wreck spotted in lake:   29fn

SBD recovery, another:   28, 29, 30

SBDs, Marine, at Midway:   23, 24, 25, 44, 45, 46, 48

Shattered Sword in Yahoo Groups:   28

Showers, RADM D. M. (Mac), USN-Ret:   32fn, 33

Sheedy, ENS Daniel C. (VF-3 pilot):   19

Swan, CDR Robert A., USN-Ret:   15

 

Task Force (1949 movie):   21

TBD production list:   47

TBD, Yorktown, recovery at Jaluit:   21

Thach, Jimmy, F4F training film:   46

Thompson, CWO Francis L. “Tommy”, USN-Ret:   33

Tillman, Barrett, blog:   31fn

Tone 4, flight of:   46fn

Tora Tora Tora (1970 movie):   21

torpedoes, aerial, U.S., at Midway:   36, 37, 41

“Turn of the War” event at NAB Little Creek:   07fn

 

veterans, Midway, a small world:   06

videos, documentary, Japanese, WW2:   02

 

URLs (Internet addresses):   34fn

USS Constitution, BOM commemoration aboard:   20

USS Enterprise, admiralty pennant:   30fn, 36

USS Hornet air group over Kido Butai:   46, 47, 48

USS Hornet YE homing transmitter:   37

USS Liberty, video on NavyTV.org web site:   02fn

USS Nautilus (SS-168):   25fn

USS Saratoga (CV-3):   14, 48

USS Yorktown found by Hiryu dive bombers:   (see Hiryu)

USS Yorktown, new photos of sinking:   22, 27

USS Yorktown TBD recovery at Jaluit:   (see TBD)

 

veterans wanted, air combat, by Japanese producer:   29fn

veterans, Midway, salute to:   23

VB-6 “6-B-4” aircraft:   42

VF-6 over VT-8:   46

VF-8 pilots:   25

VS-5 (squadron aboard Yorktown):   18fn

VT-8 logbook:   see logbook

 

Weisheit, Bowen:   (see Last Flight of Ensign C. Markland Kelly...)

Wild Blue Yonder, The (1951 movie re B29s):   02fn

Word, Microsoft, .docx file extensions:   38fn

 

Washington, DC, 67th BOM anniversary:   13

What Kido Butai should have done:   11-17, 22-24

“Where are the fighters?”:   22

Whose SBD is that?:   11, 12

Wildcats vs. Zeros:   02, 03, 04, 06, 07, 08

wildfires, Australia:   07fn

Windows XP, computer hint:   28fn

Wings of the Navy (1939 movie):   21

 

YE homing transmitter:   see USS Hornet

 

Zero, Japanese TV documentary:   41

 

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2008

 

The issue number for each listing is 2008-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issues 2008-31 and 2008-32.

 

To read any issue from 2008, click here.

 

Topic                                     Issue No.

 

AA defense against VB and VT attacks:   31, 32

A Dawn Like Thunder (book by Robert Mrazek):   47

address book, backup:   04, 05

address, e-mail, link problem in Roundtable Forum:   24fn

address, e-mail, reporting new:   21fn, 35fn

Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader upgrade:   18fn, 34fn

aircraft handling aboard BOM carriers:   14

aircrews, BOM, training for:   14, 15, 17

Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy at:   40, 41

anniversary, BOM, 66th:   10fn, 12, 22, 23

anniversary, BOM, 67th:  39, 40, 41fn – 43fn

Anderson, Earl E.  (Midway Marine):   13

artwork, BOM:   33

At the Interface (DVD featuring Mac Showers):   02, 20, 24fn

aviators, BOM, recovering at sea:   42, 43, 44

 

B-17s at the BOM:   44

Battle of Midway, impact beyond World War II:   43, 44, 45, 46

Battle of Midway (John Ford movie) on web site:   (see Ford...)

battle station, TBD:   (see TBD)

Berry, David R., VS-5 pilot:   20

Beyond Pearl Harbor (book by Ron Werneth):   32, 42, 46fn

“Big E,” The, on the History Channel:   07, 08, 09fn, 10, 11, 12fn, 13, 14

blog, leadership at the BOM:   09fn

books, BOM, for juveniles:   12

books, free, for Roundtable members:   10, 13

 

Carrier Combat (book by Frederick Mears):   13

Carrier Strike (book by Eric Hammel):   08

carriers, U.S., out of position as the BOM began?:   (see Fletcher, Rear Admiral)

CASU (Carrier Aircraft Service Unit):   21

clips, video, BOM:   10fn

Codebreakers Victory   (book review):   05

Coral Sea, Battle of, new info on web site:   41

crossing the line (Shellbacks):   30

 

DeLorenzo, CAPT Frank A., USN-Ret:   29fn

directory printer (software):   28, 29fn

display, BOM anniversary, Virginia Beach, VA:   24

doctrine, carrier, failures at Midway:   35, 36

doctrine, carrier, failures at Midway, Japanese:   36, 37

documentary, old, BOM:   24fn

documents, BOM, reclassified:   48

Drake, Donald (Midway Marine):   12

 

Eudora e-mail program:   09fn

excursion, MIdway, June 2009:   (see anniversary, BOM, 67th)

 

FDR and Pearl Harbor:   16, 17, 18, 19

films, training, by Jimmie Thach:   45

Final Judgment (book by Clausen & Lee):   17, 18, 19

Firefox browser:   20fn

Fletcher, Rear Admiral Frank Jack, command decisions:   25, 26, 27, 37, 38, 39, 40

flight hours, total, BOM vets, prior to the BOM:   38, 39

font, print, adjusting size:   08

Ford, John, “Battle of Midway” film:   02, 03, 41, 42, 43

Fox, Edgar (Midway Marine):   11

fuze, proximity:   32fn

 

Gaido, Peter (VB-6 R/G):   10

Gardner, John V. (Midway Marine):   14

Gay, George (VT-8 pilot):   01, 02, 47

Gee, Roy P. Sr., VB-8 pilot:   21

gmail (e-mail service):   07, 08

Greaves, John:   24fn, 25

Grist, Walter C. (Midway Marine):   20

“group grope”:   29, 34

 

HAG, flying with the:   (see USS Hornet)

Harville, Ewrightson (BOM vet):   22

Hawaii, Japanese invasion of:   21

help needed, web hosting:   11

Hendrick, Robert E. (Midway Marine):   15

Hiryu and the HAG, the:   36, 37

HMAS Sydney (Australian cruiser):   12fn, 26fn

Hodges, Julian E., Yorktown vet:   08

Hopkins, Lewis A., VB-6 vet:   27

“How do wars begin?”:   16

 

I-168 (Japanese submarine):   22fn, 23

impact of the BOM beyond WWII:   see Battle of Midway

 

J2F utility aircraft (see pilots)

 

Life Magazine, World War II photographs from:   45, 46, 47

Lucius, William (Midway Marine):   18

 

Marching Orders (book by Bruce Lee):   17, 18

Marines, a BOM vet’s salute to:   21

McDougal, Don (Midway Marine):   17, 20

memorial, BOM, at Annapolis:   (see Annapolis)

memories, mess deck:   37, 38, 39, 40

message, Memorial Day:   20

Midway: Dauntless Victory  (book review):   03, 05

Midway Inquest  (book review):  11

Midway: Turning Point in the Pacific (book review):   25

Mikuma, crashing the:   35, 36, 37

Miniclier, Col. John (Midway Marine):   16

museum, air, in Michigan:   43, 44

myth, Midway, that refuses to die:   24, 25fn

 

Naval Historical Center:   11fn, 12fn, 47fn

Navy Cross citations in World War II:   04

Nobles, Oscar Sherrill (seeking info on):   23

Nugent, John, BOM diorama display by:   01, 24

 

Packard, Wyman (Hornet vet):   06

PBY, Howard Ady’s:   14

Photo of the Week (introduced):   24

photos, Midway, Life Magazine:   45

photos, WWII, on-line collection:   23

pilots, enlisted and warrant officer:   15, 17, 18fn

pilots, J2F, on the Hornet:   08

pilots, SBD, how experienced at the BOM?:   24, 25, 26, 28

“Planes of Fame Air Museum”:   43fn

Prior, Raymond (Midway Marine):   19

program, radio, 1942, featuring a Midway vet:   18

project, student, BOM vets wanted for:   01, 02

 

Quicktime upgrade:   34fn

 

recognition, Japanese ship and aircraft:   02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07

recovering BOM aviators at sea:   (see aviators...)

Reeves, Thomas, SBD pilot, VS-5:   02

Rendezvous at Midway (book review):   38

reunion, VF-42:   10fn

Roundtable, a major change for:   48

Roundtable, removed from:   35

 

Sand Island, guard duty on:   03

SBD and jet bombing tactics, the:   33

Screened Her Going Down  (book  by Norman W. Shaw):   14fn, 18

secrets, codebreaking, declassification of:   13, 14, 15, 19

sender verification:   26

Seitz, Frederick, scale models:   36

Sheedy, Dan, VF-3 pilot:   46

Shellbacks (see crossing the line)

Showers, RADM Donald M. (“Mac”):   02, 15fn, 18, 20, 24fn, 46

Six Frigates (book by Ian W. Toll):   31fn

Soji, Akira, captain of Mogami:   21

submarines in the BOM:   22fn, 23, 24

symposium, BOM, Pearl Harbor with Midway excursion:   (see anniversary, BOM, 67th)

 

Task Force  (movie review):   09

TBD gunner, no battle station for:   42

“Tough Old Bird, A”:   37

Tremblay, William:   23fn

 

USNR nomenclature change:   46fn

USS Enterprise, after the battle:   44

USS Enterprise on the History Channel:   see “Big E”

USS Fulton (AS-11):   30

USS Hammann (DD-412):   30

USS Hornet air group at MCAS Ewa:   31

USS Hornet air group at Midway, medals for:   26, 28

USS Hornet air group, flying with:   04

USS Hornet air group, the Hiryu and the:   (see Hiryu and the HAG, the)

USS Hornet, article in USNI “Proceedings”:   35fn

USS Hornet, Dan Sheedy landing accident:   see Sheedy

USS Hornet, landing on the bow, launching from the hangar:   09, 10

USS Hornet, remember the:   41

USS Nautilus (SS-168):   22fn, 23

USS Yorktown, the Ballad of:   34

USS Yorktown, escaping the:   29, 35

 

veteran contact wanted:   42

VF-42, reunion:   43fn

VT-8, prepared for battle?:   48

 

War and Remembrance  (TV miniseries):   03fn, 07, 08, 09

“what-if” at the BOM:   35

 

Yamato, Hornet, and Midway on TV:   17

 

Zero, early intel on:   06, 08

 

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2007

 

The issue number for each listing is 2007-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issue 2007-28.

 

To read any issue from 2007, click here.

 

 

Topic                                     Issue No.

 

accident rate on U.S. carriers:   28

aircraft carrier photo collections:   24fn

Aleutians, Japanese strategy in:   33, 34

An IJN View of the Pacific War (book):   44

anniversary of the BOM, 65th:   02, 06, 07fn, 08, 09, 10fn, 11, 12, 16-18, 19fn, 20-22, 37

anniversary of the Roundtable, 10th:   37

anti-virus programs:   02fn

Armstrong, LCDR Robert G.:   22, 40

articles, BOM, Naval War College:   37fn

Attack-Repeat-Attack (book by Alvin Kernan):   24

attorneys on the Roundtable roster:   48

 

B-26s at the BOM:   26, 27

“Band of Brothers” in the Pacific:   26, 27, 39, 47fn

Battle of Midway, The, by Peter C. Smith (book review):   02

Battle of Midway, The, by Ira Peck (book review):   16

Battle Off Midway Island, The by Theodore Taylor (book review):   16

Best-McClusky issue, the:   16, 17

Beyond Pearl Harbor (book by Ron Werneth):   24

Black Shoe Carrier Admiral (book):   02, 04

BOM pilots on the Internet:  30

BOMRT on five continents:   04, 06

books of interest (commentary by Otis Kight):   48

book, new, BOM, in Sweden:   (see Midway 1942 by Johan Lupander)

book reviews wanted:   33, 38fn

books, BOM, “Midway Library” web page:   11, 13

books available, more:   04

books, WW2, from “Santa”:   07, 10

Boulier, CWO Kenneth A., USN-Ret:   43

Burkey, CDR Gale C., USN-Ret:   39

BZ to a Midway vet:   07

 

Carrier Strike (book review):   31, 32

Chicago Tribune, leak of USN codebreaking at Midway:   21fn

Choices Under Fire (book):   05, 06fn

Climax at Midway (book):   38

commemorate the BOM, a new way:   12

communications failures at the BOM:   26, 27, 28, 29, 30

compass readings and headings:   28fn

contest, essay:   35, 36fn, 37, 38fn

Coral Sea, battle of, book choices:   13fn, 15, 16

Corio, Paul, BOM screenplay by:   47fn

Course 265 true: closing the book:   30, 31

“Course to Midway, The” (new Navy web site):   18, 25

Cressman, Robert J.:   44fn

cruise to Midway:   06, 15

 

damage on Midway from the Japanese air strike:   05

dioramas by John Nugent:   48

 

Dive Bomber  (video review):   45, 46

Dogfights (History Channel series):   03fn, 10fn

 

Empire Falls, The: the Battle of Midway (Osprey book):   26fn

enlisted and warrant officer pilots:   17, 44

Eyewitness to History: Philip H. Jacobsen (book review):   44

 

Fateful Rendezvous (book review):   47

Ferrier, Harry H., VT-8 TBF radioman:   44fn

Firefox browser:   19fn

Fisher, CDR Clayton E.:  32

Fear in the Dark  (book review):   32

Ford, John, movie producer/director:   22, 23

Fortnight of Infamy (book review):   41

Friends of Midway Atoll, The:   12fn

Fuchida, Mitsuo, new manuscript:   46, 47

fueling the Japanese navy:   12, 13, 15

 

Gay, George, ENS, VT-8 (What did George Gay see?):   45, 46, 47, 48

Goldsmith, ENS George, pilot of SBD 6-B-15:   28

Guadalcanal questions:   45, 46

guest speaker, BOM, wanted in Phoenix June 4th:   09

guns, aircraft, firing sequence:   40, 41

 

home wanted for a lifetime of BOM memorabilia:   01

Hornet-Mustin reunion:   06, 15fn, 23

Howard, William L., BOM vet:   27

 

“If the Hornet air group had followed Waldron...”   (see Waldron’s Turn)

interviews, vet, for the History Channel:   37, 38

Isom, Dallas, new BOM book:   19, 40

Iverson, 1st Lt. Daniel, USMC:   13

 

Jacobsen, Philip H.:   44

Japanese war movies:   23, 24

 

Kleiss, N. J. (“Dusty”), VS-6 pilot:   44fn

 

Leonard, RADM William N.:  42

Lost letter of Midway, Stanhope Ring’s:   43

Lundstrom, John:   13fn, 15, 17fn, 18

 

Marine Provisional Companies, 22nd & 23rd:   38, 39

Marines raising the flag during the air raid:   04

Mattson, Edward D., VF-3/42 pilot:   33, 34

Memorial Day message:   39

Midway 1942 by Johan Lupander:   01, 02, 33

Midway 1942 by Mark Healy (book review):   22

Midway, Battle for the Pacific by Edmund Castillo (book review):   13

Midway Inquest by Dallas W. Isom (book review):   40

“Midway Is Our Trafalgar” (Proceedings article):   18  (see also 2006 index)

“Midway Library” book rankings:   11, 13

Midway, novel by Donald S. Sanford (book review):   10

Moore, 2nd Lt. Thomas F., Jr., USMC:   15

Moore, Oral L., VB-8 R/G:   25

 

National WWII Museum, special BOM exhibit:   33

naval aviation, U.S., evolution of:   15

Naval History (magazine):   15fn, 32, 34fn

Naval War College, BOM articles on line:   37fn

Newsweek magazine, the BOM in:   23

No Right to Win (book):   10, 18

No Right to Win, companion CD:   37, 38, 40

Nagumo’s summary for 4 June 1942:   29

 

Pacific, The  (TV miniseries):   (see Band of Brothers in the Pacific)

Pacific war, issues for refighting:   46

Pearl Harbor attack:   46fn

person, most influential, BOM:   06, 07, 08, 09

post cards for Ed’s class:   12

prayer, the Battle of Midway:   06

PT boats at Midway:   05, 06

Putnam, LCDR Miles K., USNR-Ret:   20

 

radio news broadcasts, WW2:   08fn

radio silence for Kido Butai:   23

Rendezvous at Midway (book review):   34

research assistant needed:   44

Rochefort and Nimitz:   11

Roundtable Forum, The, (format style):   01, 04fn, 10fn, 17

Roundtable on DVD, the:   23

running rendezvous:   (see USS Yorktown)

 

SBD model, collector edition:   06

scale models, BOM:   09

Shannon, Col. Harold, instructions to 6th MarDefBn:   01

Ship to Remember, A   (book by Alexander Griffin):   32fn

Sheedy, Dan, VF-3 pilot:   19

Smith, Peter G. (author):   02, 24, 36fn

Soryu, the death of:   05

Squadron Signal (aircraft book publisher):   01fn

Swindell, Thurman R., AOM1/c, VS-6:   14, 15

symposium, Midway-Guadalcanal:   36

 

Tape to DVD help wanted:   32

TBD Devastator, possible recovery of:   02, 04, 43

torpedoes, Japanese:   41

torpedo info chart:   41fn

 

U.S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific  (1947 NavOps publication):   27

USS Hornet (CV-8) air group, flight on 4 June 1942:   03, 04, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 43

USS Hornet dive bombers vs. Kido Butai:   17, 18, 20

USS Hornet photo:   01fn

USS Hornet reunion:  (see Hornet-Mustin reunion)

USS Hornet, short history of:   38, 39

USS Hornet web site:   45, 46fn

USS Midway Museum, San Diego:   08, 09, 33

USS Mustin (DD-413):   (see Hornet-Mustin reunion)

USS Wasp (CV-7), loss of:   24, 25

USS Yorktown (CV-5) reunion:   02

USS Yorktown, running rendezvous:   08, 09, 10

 

VB-3 hits on Soryu:   47

VF3/42 (Yorktown fighter squadron):   47

VF-6, radio messages from:   22

VF-6, escorting VT-8:   23fn, 34

VS-5, July 1942:   45, 46fn

VT-8 photo, departing the Hornet:  (see USS Hornet air group, flight on 4 June 1942)

 

Waldron’s radio exchange with Ring:   12, 13

Waldron’s turn:   31, 32, 33

Walsh, George, SB2C Helldiver pilot:   02fn

Walters, Kent, SBD RC model owner:   16

Whitlock, CAPT Duane L., USN:   16fn

Why course 265 degrees true?:   28, 29, 30

Woodson, Richard T., VS-8 veteran:   36

World War II History Roundtable:   13

 

Yamaguchi, RADM Tamon, IJN:   17

Yamato, last voyage of:   41, 42, 43

 

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2006
 
The issue number for each listing is 2006-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issue 2006-19.

 

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Topic                                     Issue No.

 

Adams, Dick, new member:   19

Adams, CDR Donald D., VB-8 vet:   14fn

Adrianos, John, new member:   07

Aircraft Types Piloted During a Career:   23, 24

Airline miles, donate:   see Fisher House Foundation

Amazon.com, book reviews:   44

Ambush at Midway  (video):   17

Ames, Allan, new member:   02

Anderson, Gen. Earl E., USMC:   29fn

Anniversaries, BOM:   07fn, 08, 09, 10fn, 13fn, 14, 15fn, 23fn, 24, 25, 30

Anniversary, Roundtable’s ninth:   36fn, 37fn, 38fn, 39fn, 40-44

Arashio (IJN destroyer):   01

Archives, Roundtable:   22fn

Army Control of Navy Aircraft on Oahu:   23, 24

 

Back from Afghanistan:   26

Battlefield (1994 PBS broadcast):   01, 37

Best, Richard, family of:   12

“Blackshoe, brownshoe”:   08fn

Black Shoe Carrier Admiral (book by John Lundstrom):   11fn, 34fn, 43, 44, 45

BOM on Midway Atoll, The:   19

Books from “Santa”:   08, 15fn

Book review, posting on the web:   43

Book reviews wanted:   47

Bouterse, CDR Matthew J.:   09

Boyer, Don, new member:   03

Brommer, Jim, new member:   11

Burcher, Charles:   29fn

 

Cannon, Bill, BOM PBY pilot:   16fn

Carrier Takeoffs in 1942:   39, 44, 45

Cavalcante, Bernard “Cal”:   13

Cecilio, Edmundo Lopes, new member:   16

Charlevois, Al, new member:   19

Childers, Lloyd, serving with:   20

Christie, Jr., John J., new member:   13

Clash of the Carriers  (book):   01, 25

Combined Fleet Decoded  (book):   48

Coordinated carrier strikes:   51

Coral Sea anniversary in Australia:   36

Coral Sea’s impact on the BOM:   07

Coral Sea order of battle:   04, 05, 06

Cortese, Allan W., new member:   05

Crisman, Bryan A.:   34fn

 

Dave’s War Birds (web site):   06

Days That Shook the World: the Battle of Midway:   01, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43

Deception in the Pacific (War Stories episode):   07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14

DeLorenzo, CAPT Frank L., USN-Ret:   32fn

Dickinson, Clarence, VS-6 pilot:   29, 30, 31

Did materiel superiority win in the Pacific?:   48, 49, 51

Distance between TF-16 and TF-17:   10, 11, 12, 14

Dogfight Over Guadalcanal (TV documentary):   30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 45, 46

Dogfights (History Channel series):   19fn, 44, 45, 50fn

Doolittle Raid:   27fn

Doyle, Patrick, CDR USNR:   11fn, 16fn, 26

Dunn, Charles B., new member:   05

 

Early carrier raids:   48

Edvaldsson, Ragnar, new member:   31

Eichorn, Raymond “Jerry”:   32fn

Epps, Richard, new BOM vet member:   02, 34fn

Exchange service in the Forum?, an:   48

 

Fifth Avenue Books (San Diego bookstore):   25fn

Fighter direction and control at the BOM:   14, 16

“First Battle of Midway, The”:   27

Fisher, Clayton E.:   01, 34fn

Fisher House Foundation, donate airline miles to:   28

Flag bridge on Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet:   50

Fletcher, Admiral Frank Jack:   47 (see also Black Shoe Carrier Admiral)

Flight to nowhere, the:   41

Flood, Harry, new member:   01

Fort, Brian, CDR USN:   27fn

Fox, Edward R.:   51

 

Gaido, Peter, “The Bravest Man I Ever Met”:   17

Gardner, John V.:   46fn

Gay, George (VT-8 pilot):   46fn

Geissler, Bill:  17fn

Gore, Paulette, new member:   12

Gray, David:   12

Greaves, John, new BOM painting by:   29

Hangar deck, USS Enterprise, spottiing:   45

Harrison, Ron, new member:   21fn

Harvey, Van A., new member:   10

Hawaii Under the Rising Sun (book review):   05

Hayden, Ray, new member:   01

Help wanted for new BOM novel:   31

Henson, Don, former Marine warrant officer:   44fn

Historic Naval Ship Association (HSNA, web site):   19fn

Historyanimated.com:   12fn

 

I-168, interview of CDR Yahachi Tanabe:   38fn

IJN CVs, advance knowledge about:   13, 14, 15, 16

Interviews wanted by Navy Dept., Midway vet:   see “Naval Media Center”

Interviews wanted, BOM vets:   40

 

Jacobsen, Philip H., final muster for:   35, 36, 37

Japanese aircraft names:   02, 03, 04

Japanese intelligence:   17, 18

“Just a pawn in the battle”:   13

 

Kaseberg, Dan, final muster for:   21

Kaur, Rajwant, new member:   12

Kight, Otis G.:   47fn, 49

Kleiss, Jack “Dusty,” new BOM vet member:   05

 

Landry, John K., new member:   13

Laser, Sam:   41fn

Lee, Gary, new member:   08

Lippman, David H., new member:   06

Lundstrom, John:   33fn, 36fn, 38fn, 43fn

 

March [music], Battle of Midway:   11, 13

Marine Defense Battalions reunion:   11

Marine fighter defenses at Midway:   12

Marona, G. L. “Lee”:   39

McCaffrey, Mac, new member:   11

McDougal, L. D. “Don”:   12, 46fn

McPhee, Sandy, new member:   04

Mears, Frederick, VT-8 pilot:   29, 30

Mechanical problems on BOM aircraft:   10, 11, 12

Memorial Day message:   22

“Midway Is Our Trafalgar” (Proceedings article):   24fn, 25

Midway’s impact on history:   26

Midway today:   30, 48

Miniclier, John:   41fn

Mobilia, Ross, new member:   01

Morley, Michael P., new member:   13

Morgan, Robert, new member:   05

Mrazek, Robert J., new member:   04

“Mutiny” on the Yorktown:   07, 08, 10

 

National History Day Contest:   09, 22fn, 24, 29

Nations, BOM membership:   31fn

Naval Media Center BOM video:   25, 27, 30, 45

Navy Crosses, multiple:   32

New Pacific war book, input wanted for:   27

Newberg, Peter L.:   45fn

Nimitz Museum, BOM at, June 3rd:   22

No Right to Win (book):   20fn, 36fn, 38, 39, 40fn, 46, 50fn

NWC (Naval War College):   05, 06

 

Op-order, CINCPAC, BOM:   04, 05

 

Pacific: the Lost Evidence  (History Channel series):   44fn

Painting, dramatic new BOM:   12

Painting, VT, at top of Roundtable home page:    12fn

PBY colors and markings:   05, 06

Pearl Harbor, 65th anniversary:   50fn

Pearl Harbor Myth, The  (book):   45fn

Pearl Harbor news articles, vintage:   50

Pearl Harbor photos:   10

Peridon, Seth, new member:   07

Petraska, Jeff, new member:   19

Photo gallery, veterans:   13fn

Picket boats, Japanese (Doolittle Raid):   46

Pollard, Joseph P. (Yorktown asst. med. officer):   43fn, 44

Polmar, Norman:   11, 51fn

Power Point reader:   27fn

Print font adjustments with mouse wheel:   18fn

PUC for the Yorktown:   31

 

Quam, E. R. “Bud”:   45fn

 

Reunions, ship and squadron (etc.):   10fn, 15fn

Ring, Stanhope, “lost letter”:   18, 19, 20

Rochefort, Joseph, new book on:   21, 22

Rodenburg, Dennis, new member:   11

Rodenburg, John, new member:   03

Roundtable, the beginning of:   40

Roundtable Forum, The, not received:   34fn

 

Sanes, Jay, new member:   14

SB2U Vindicators at Midway:   07

Scale modelers, info for:   27

Schoonmaker, Justin, new member:   22fn

Screen area or screen resolution, adjusting:   24fn

Shattered Sword (book by Parshall & Tully):   05, 06, 07fn, 08fn, 11fn, 22

“Sinking the Shoho” (Naval History article by John Lundstrom):   11fn

Sheedy, Dan, incident on USS Hornet:   01

Ship That Held the Line, The:   49

Smoke from Midway’s burning fuel tank:   41

Southern Calif. BOM vets invited to Marina Del Rey:   20

Spies For Nimitz (book):   05

Stephan, John, new member:   03

Student project, questions for:   13, 14fn, 22

Students remember a BOM vet on June 4th:   24

Surgi, Bill, books:   15

Svonavec, Steve, new member:   08

Szalanczi, Zsolt:   40

 

Taps for a Zero pilot:   50

TBD questions:   32, 33, 34, 35

TBD torpedo director:   04

TF-16 & 17:  too far from Midway?:   33, 34, 36

Thomas, Jack, new member:   02

Thompson, Tommy, new BOM vet member:   28

Time zones during the BOM:   28, 29

Tokyo Rose:   45, 46, 47

Topper, Stephen, new member:   07

Torpedo Squadron 8  (John Ford short film):   47fn, 48fn

Tulagi, attacking:   06

TV documentary, BOM, new:   49, 50

 

Upward, Alec, new member:   08

USS Aylwin at the BOM:   03, 08, 09

USS Enterprise hangar deck, spotting:   see “hangar deck”

USS Enterprise squadron after-action reports:   15

USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68), veterans of:   12fn

USS Hammann (DD-412):   38fn

USS Hornet archives at the NARA:   04

USS Hornet  (book review):   49

USS Hornet, new DVD:   18, 22

USS Hornet (photo at pier):   50fn, 51

USS Hornet pilots, seeking:   25

USS Hornet, web site:   13fn, 33fn, 34

USS Narwhal (SS-167), veterans of:   22fn

USS Port Royal (CG-73), BOM night aboard:   30

USS Wahoo (SS-238):   48fn

USS Yorktown flight deck photo:   15, 16

USS Yorktown, “mutiny” on the:   (see Mutiny)

USS Yorktown photos:   28fn

USS Yorktown reunion in 2007:   29

USS Yorktown’s running rendezvous:   47, 48

 

VB-5 aboard Yorktown (photo):   14

Vets who continue to serve:   51

VF-8, loss of:   20, 41, 42

VFW post named for BOM pilots:   51

Vincent, Harry L., Jr., new BOM vet member:   18

VS-6 pilots, autographed squadron photo:  16

 

Walk Around-SBD Dauntless (book review):   06, 07

Walters, Kent, SBD:   31

Warships: Pearl Harbor to Midway (video):   46

What did Midway’s defenders know?:   31, 32

Wilson, Sharon, new member:   19

Winds of War, The:   01, 02

Woodson, Richard T.:   40

 

YE/ZB (radio homing system):   19

 

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2005

The issue number for each listing is 2005-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issues 2005-43 and 2005-44.

 

To read any issue from 2005, click here.

 


Topic                                     Issue No.

 

6th Defense Battalion Reunion Report:   43, 44

1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls (book):   39, 40


Ady’s PBY:  21

After-action reports on our web site:  08

Air intelligence officers:  29

Aircraft that won the war:  02, 03, 04

Amazing SBD model:  04

And I Was There (book):   39

Anderson, General Earl, new member:   32

Archer, Theodore R., new BOM vet member:   46

Archer, William, new member:   46

Anniversary observances, BOM:  05, 06, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

Archive disk, second edition:   01, 02, 03

Arming the bomb:   45

Authors, Roundtable, new feature on BOMRT web site:  37

 

B-26s at the BOM:  19, 20

Barton, CAPT Harry H. “Ace”:  30

Beach, Edward, BOM article by:  35

Bogus BOM vet:  01

BOM art by R. G. Smith:  19

BOM at WWII Memorial, Washington DC:  24

BOM by David Lippman, the:  23

BOM night on USS Midway, 17 Nov 2005:   41

BOM on the Discovery Channel:  21

BOM on the NMNA web site:  04

BOM overview chart:   48

BOM vet interviews available at National Archives:  18

BOM vets wanted for Washington DC forum:   17

Bombing squadron questions:   09, 10, 13

Bouterse, Matt, Chaplain:   22, 45

Breaking the Japanese code:  who knew?:   29, 30, 31, 32, 33

Brown, CPO Marcy, USN, new member:   14

Brown, Richard, lucky Yorktown hat:   31

Bryson, Bob, new member:   32

 

C3 at the BOM:   34, 35

Carroll, Mike, new member:   06

Cason, “Casey,” final sortie:   18

Casualties of the BOM:   20, 21, 23, 24, 27

Cavalcante, Cal in sickbay:   29, 38

Changing view of the BOM, the:  24

Chart, overview, BOM:   48

Classic films at Wal Mart:  30

Combat flight simulator:  37

ComInt in Australia:  13

Computer ups & downs:  03

Coral Sea:  a decisive battle?:   01

Coral Sea:  getting it right:   32, 33

Coral Sea, memories of:  18, 19, 20

Cresswell, Ray, new member:  28

Crossing the Line (book review):  29

Current Navy web site:   48

CV model builders, look here:   14

CV-6 postage stamp:  27

 

DeGruy, Charles, new member:  25

DeLorenzo, Frank:  30, 43

Ditching and Rescue:   46, 47

Dive bombers in the movies:  29

Dive bombing doctrine:   41, 42

Doyle, Pat, off to war:   42

Dyer, Fred, last sortie:   45, 46

 

Ebay, BOM books on:  26

E-mail and home page changes:  08

Early model SBD:  06, 07, 08

Eason, Joe, last muster:  25

Eldard, Bill, new member:  11

Enterprise sunk at Pearl Harbor?:  23

 

F4F scale model:  15

Film from the Yorktown:  26

Finding the Japanese carriers:   01, 02, 04, 05, 06

Finnegan, Greg, new member:  01

First anniversary of the Forum:  17

First Team, The (book by John Lundstrom):  26, 27

Flags of Our Fathers (book):   40

Flight Journal (magazine):   41, 47

Forbes, Jim, final sortie:  03, 04, 05

Ford, John, at the BOM:  27, 28

Forum distribution schedule:  16

Fox, Ed, essay winner:  02, 03

“Friendship letters” from IJN vets:  26

 

Gaynier, Greg, new member:  12

Giant IJN submarine:  13, 15

Gray, David and Eric, new members:  30

Grecco, Mike, new member:   45

Grist, Walt, last muster for:   32, 33

Guadalcanal artwork:  11

 

Help wanted, TV schedules:  15, 22, 23

Henson, Don, salute to:  04

Hilliard, Joe, new member:  06

Hornet, the “happy”:   44, 45

Hurricane Katrina:  34

 

IJN ship disposition list:  18

Index of The Roundtable Forum for 2004:  01

Ingersoll, Grace:   44, 46

Ingersoll, Royal, LT, USS Hornet:  23

International WWII conference in New Orleans:  19, 24

 

Japanese air defense at the BOM:  12

Japanese aircraft images:   43

Japanese aircraft paint scheme:  05, 06, 08

Japanese pilot skill level:  06, 07

Japan’s War in Colour (PBS TV special):   45 (in “Forum Notes”)

 

Kait, CAPT H. Hart; new senior member of the roundtable:  16, 17

Kleiss, “Dusty,” at the BOM:   40

Kraver, Ted: "A hot time at Ted's house":  05

Lane, David, BOM vet:  36

Last Days of World War II, The (History Channel series):  07

Last Flight of Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Junior, USNR, The (book):    10

Leonard, Bill, last sortie for:  33, 34

Lightning Strike: the Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto (book):  35, 36, 38

Linzey, Chaplain, with President Bush 30 August:  33, 34

Love and Glory, book review:  03

Lupander, Johan:  new member:  05

Marine Defense Battalion reunion:  15

Matheson, Rich, new member:   46

McClusky and Best:   39, 40, 41

Medallion for BOM 6th anniversary:   43

Media comments wanted, BOM:  16, 17

Memorial Day message to our WWII vets:  21

Midway (1976 movie):  28

Midway after the battle:  38

Midway Airport, Chicago:   45

Midway by Hugh Bicheno (book):  20

Midway Marines photo wanted:  26

Midway:  Sheer Luck or Better Doctrine? (NWC article):  09, 10, 11

Midway, the Decisive Battle? (Naval History article):  33, 34

Military Channel, The:  03

Moore, Nigel, new member:   44

Movie and video reviews:  21

Movie review:  A Wing and a Prayer:  17

Murphy, Bryan, new member:   32

 

National History Day contest:  05, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 27

Naval Security Group records of WWII:  08

Naval War College articles of interest:  31

New book on ADM Fletcher:  10

New feature on BOMRT web site:  Roundtable authors:  (see Authors)

New senior member of the roundtable:  (see Kait)

Newberg, Peter, new BOM vet member:  10

Newell, LCDR Byron B., Hornet inquiry:  09

NMNA’s SBD:   41

 

Oliver North BOM video available:  04

 

Pacific War, The (upcoming HBO series):   40

Pearl Harbor, foreknowledge:   21

Pichette, Norman, saga of:   32, 33

Polmar, Norman, new member:  35

Posthumous BOM awards:   01

Price, Bill in sickbay:  11

Prior, Ray, Taps for Midway Marine:   14

Pritzger Military Library webcasts:  25

Pueblo incident, the:  04

 

Questions for BOM pilots:  07, 08

 

Radar on PBYs:  18

Remembering the Marines:  27

Ring, Stanhope at the BOM:  11, 12, 13, 14

 

San Diego area air show, 29 April – 1 May:  15, 17

SB2C Helldiver:  what’s wrong with this picture?:  13, 14

SB2U Vindicator:  31

Scale modelers’ convention in July:  24, 30

Scanlon, Jim, new member:  12

Seitz, Frederick, new member:  20

Seventy-degree dive, the:  23

Shattered Sword (book by Jon Parshall):   35, 43, 45

Sheedy, Dan, last sortie:  15

Sheedy, Dan, incident on USS Hornet:   47, 48

Ship damage and loss reports:  24

Silent War Against the Japanese Navy, The (book):   31, 32

Spies for Nimitz (book):  36

Sontag, James, new member:  35

Survivors or Veterans?:   42, 43, 45

Sydney, attack on:   43

 

Taps for a genuine hero of the BOM:  20

TBD, photo of VT-8:   36

TBD propellers:  02, 03

TBD scale model, new:  24

Tolman, Ann, new member:  21

Torpedoes at the BOM:  06, 07, 18, 19

Torpedo Squadron 3:  28

Torpedo squadron questions:  09, 10

 

Unknown Battle of Midway, The (book by Alvin Kernan):   45

USS Enterprise (CV-6) reunion report:   43

USS Hornet air group at the BOM, the:   48

USS Midway (CV-41), San Diego:   20, 39, 40, 41, 46

USS Saratoga at the BOM:  25

USS Yorktown reunion report:  25

 

VanBoskirk, Craig, new member:  31

VB-8 squadron photo, November 1941:   31

VF-6 at the BOM:   46, 47

VF-42 reunion:   20

Victory in the Pacific on PBS Monday, 2 May:   17

VMF-221:   44, 45, 46

VP-91 inquiry:  31

VT-3 story in Flight Journal:   41, 47

VT-8 memorial plaque in Chicago:  09, 10

VT-8 reunion in San Diego, 2 June 2005:   14

VT painting on our home page:  15

 

Waldron as CHAG?:  16, 17

Waldron, LCDR John C., the court martial of:   13, 14

Walkinshaw, David, last sortie for:   32

Was Japanese defeat at Midway inevitable?:  29

Wear, Robert, new member:  22

Web site, BOMRT:  05, 12

Were the sacrifices of VT-8 and VT-6 futile?:  07 thru 16

What If:  the next Battle of Midway:  16

What’s wrong with this picture?:  13, 14, 23, 24

Who attacked the Akagi?:  23, 24, 25

“Why I survived the BOM”:  13

"Why wasn't my message printed?":   11

Why you didn't receive The Roundtable Forum   04

Wings of Gold (book review):  07

“With All Battle Flags Flying”:  35, 36, 37, 38, 39

Wohlrab, Chuck, new member:  06

Writing for the Roundtable:  28

WWII book questions:  06

WWII in color:   41

WWII music & audio web site:  16

 

Yamato movie in Japan, new:   43, 44

Yamato, sinking the:   39

Yamato vs. Iowa:   42

Yorktown air group photo:  10, 11

Yorktown BOM photo:  19, 20

Yorktown (CV-5) reunion:  04, 12

 

Zero recovered in the Aleutians:  06, 07, 08, 10, 11

Zero replica at air show:  16

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2004
 
The issue number for each listing is 2004-xx.  For example, the first item will be found in issues 2004-24 and 2004-25.

 

To read any issue from 2004, click here.

 
Topic                                     Issue No.


"AF is short of water":  24, 25

Amphibious invasion of Midway:  11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31

And I Was There, by Edwin Layton (book review):  15, 16

Anniversary events (post-event reports):  07, 08, 09

Anniversary events (upcoming):  01, 02

Archive disk, 2004:  02

Artwork, BOM:  fact or fantasy?:  19

Attu (see "Kiska and Attu")

Aviation Art Central:  23

 

Back issues of the Forum:  21

Balou, Tom, new member:  27

Band of Brothers in the Pacific:  33

Bernstein, George, new member:  14

Bogus BOM Vet?:  27, 28, 29

Boldface, changing the Forum to:  20

Bouterse, Matt (BOM vet, chaplain, USS Astoria):  07

Burke, Craig, new member:  29

 

Carey, John, Col. USMC:  33

Carlson, Elliott, new member:  27

Carlson, Tom, new member:  27

Carter, William "Doug," final sortie:  15

Cheek, Tom (BOM vet, VF-3 F4F pilot):  01, 02, 06, 07, 08

Combat photos and photographers:  01, 05

ComInt on the History Channel:  26

Command Decisions (History Channel series):  13, 14, 15, 16

Conspiracy:  FDR and Pearl Harbor (History Channel series):  24, 25, 31, 32

Contacting us:  08

Coral Sea: a decisive battle?:  33

Cory, Merle, 2nd LT, USMC:  "Star-Crossed Translator:"   16

Cotton, Bernie:  30, 31

Cotton, Christopher, new member: 29

Cotton, FX, final sortie:  27, 30

 

December 7th (1943 movie):  03

DeLorenzo, Frank:  14, 21, 24, 27, 29, 31

Diorama, VB6 & Akagi:  17, 18

 

Eaton, Jerry, new member:  26

Elevator cycle times, IJN & USN:  10, 11

 

F2A for the NMNA, an:  20

F4F Wildcat:  17, 18

Finding the Japanese carriers:  32, 33

Flight simulator software:  25

Flying Fleet, The (1928 movie):  03

Fox, Ed (BOM vet, 6th MarDefBtn):  05

 

Glossary for the Forum, a:  21, 22, 23

Guadalcanal ("War Stories with Oliver North" episode):  15

Guest speaker, BOM, wanted:  23

 

Hickox, Tom, new member:  26

Hiryu, attacking the:  21, 22

Hoerner, Helmuth, obit for:  14

Hopkins, Lew:  19, 21, 24, 26

Hopper, Warren (USS California and Hypo vet):  01, 23

Hornby, Ken, new member:  27

Hornet air group at the BOM:  01, 02, 09, 12

Hornet flight deck photo:  11, 12, 13, 16

Horton, William D., final sortie:  11

Hurley, Ryan, new member:  32

Hurricanes (2004 storms):  21

 

Imperial Japanese Navy (Kaigun), The (History Channel special):  28, 29

 

Japanese midget subs at Pearl Harbor:  32, 33

Japanese planes in New Guinea:  23

JN-25:  06, 22, 23

 

Kaigun (see "Imperial Japanese Navy")

Kamikaze--In Color (DVD):  01

Kight, Marie:  26

Kiska and Attu:  27, 28

 

Last Flight of Ensign C. Markland Kelly, USNR, The (book):  02, 04, 10, 14

Last issue for 2004:  33

Leyte Gulf, battle of:  22

Lucius, Bill (BOM MAG-22 vet):  01, 32, 33

 

MacArthur (1977 movie):  18

Marine Corps training at the start of World War II:  10

Marines at Midway:  24  [see also "Amphibious Invasion of Midway"]

Marsh, Frank William, final sortie:  29

Mason, Stuart (BOM vet, USS Enterprise air group):  07

Massey, Lance, LCDR (CO, VT-3):  29, 30

Memorial, BOM, at the USNA:  28

Memorial Day 2004:  06

Memorial Day message and request to Roundtable members:  05

MIA members:  23

Midway defenders reunion:  20

Midway today:  07, 13, 14

Mitscher, Ring, and the USS Hornet's after-action report:  06, 07

Models, ship & aircraft:  13, 29

 

News of our vets:  24

Nielsen, Kenneth, new member:  21

Non-commissioned and warrant officer pilots:  03, 04, 05, 06

NROTC memorial to the BOM:  24

 

O'Neil, Will, new member:  23

Our 8th Year:   22

Outlook Express patch, important:  13

 

Pacific war history forum:  32

Pearl Harbor (attack on Dec. 7th):  08, 30

Phished, don't get:  30

Pilots, enlisted (see Non-commissioned and warrant officer pilots)

Photo recon from a dive bomber:  19, 20

Posthumous BOM awards:  30, 31

Postcards for Ed's Class:  20, 21, 28

Power Point presentation, BOM:  23

Promoting the Roundtable:  08

 

Quady, Frank, VF-6 Pilot:  16

 

Radio communication issues on IJN carriers:  31

Redman brothers, the:  07, 08

Restored SBD at Midway Airport, Chicago:  10, 11, 15, 19, 20, 22

Rising Sun Victorious (book):  03

Roundtable format, new:  02, 04

 

Sanchez, Patricia, new student member:  18, 20, 21, 22

SBD-3 Dauntless; the Battle of Midway (book by Daniel Hernandez):  05, 21, 23, 24, 26

SBD deadstick landing:  29

Schlessinger, James and the BOM:  21

Shattered Sword (IJN book by Jon Parshall):  27

Short, Jeff (LCDR, RN), new member:  30

Sirotin, Henry, new member

Southern California BOM vets (invitation to USS Midway museum):  04

Survey, Roundtable:  17, 18, 19

 

Talbot, John, VF-8:  28

Taps for another IJN vet:  12

TBD combat range:  15, 16

TBD veterans wanted for video interview:  02

Thomas, Homer D., veteran inquiry:  11

Torpedo squadron painting on our home page:  06

Tremblay, Bill (FRUMEL vet):  01, 03

Trinidad, AJ, new member:  32

 

Vernor, Thomas J  (see "Bogus BOM Vet?")

Veterans' artifacts and memorabilia:  07

VF-42 reunion, April 2004:  03

 

Walsh, George, new member:  32

Wanted:  BOM veterans for Dept. of Veteran Affairs video:  07

War Crimes, Japanese:  17

War Stories with Oliver North:  05, 12

Webmasters:  12

Weidling, Ralph (Coral Sea vet, VS-2):  08

Who's watching you on the web?:  17

Why you didn't receive The Roundtable Forum:  10

Witte, Roland (F4F pilot, Battle of Santa Cruz):  05

World War II Memorial, Washington DC:  01, 06, 07

 

Yamamoto and Nagumo:  19

Yamato, sinking of:  25

Yaylian, Riley, new member:  31
Yorktown air group at the BOM:  02, 04

Yorktown CV-5 resources on CV-10 web site:  16

Yorktown CV-5 reunion 2-6 June 2004:  03, 09

Yorktown:  "Into the Pacific:"  06

 

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