The Battle of Midway Roundtable
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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.
To read any issue
from 2006,
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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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