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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in July & August 2000
This page features older entries from the Online Library's
"What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, see What's
New in the Online Library of Selected Images;
For entries older than those seen here, see:
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in November & December 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in July through October 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 1999; and
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in October - December 1998
- Korean War logistics & support activities have dominated
the last week's new inputs, with two new subsections completed,
or nearly completed. These are Logistics
and Support Activities in Japan and Logistics
and Support Activities in Korea. The remainder of this topic
should be "up" within a few more days.
We also added a few more ships to the population of the Online
Libary. They include USS Princeton
(CV-37, later CVA-37, CVS-37 and LPH-5), an aircraft carrier
that saw extensive Korean War service and later became an amphibious
assault ship; USS Bataan
(CVL-29), a small aircraft carrier that also was very busy
during the Korean War; USS Biscayne
(AVP-11), a World War II small seaplane tender that had long
post-war service in the U.S. Coast Guard; and USS Milwaukee
(1864-65), a twin-turret river monitor that was one of the
Civil War's last losses to Confederate mines.
28 August 2000
- The week just past has witnessed the addition of more pages
on Korean War logistics & support activities and miscellaneous
subjects. The former is represented by a considerable expansion
of existing coverage on Trans-Pacific
Logistics. Other subjects added or significantly enlarged
include Activities in
the United States; Miscellaneous
Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 and Ships
at Sea off Korea.
Our week's headline photo provides a pleasing reminder
of what is "just around the corner" as the end of Summer
comes into view.
21 August 2000
- Work has now been completed on our presentation of images
of Chinese Offensive
of 25 November 1950 to 25 January 1951. Further coverage
on Korean War logistics and support is now in preparation. The
first new page in this series, Underway
Replenishment, 1951-53, has been posted.
14 August 2000
- Amid the clean air, fresh waters, and kayak adventures of
lovely Lake Leelanau, a bit of time has been found to return
to the not-so-lovely environment of the Korean
War -- specifically the devastating Chinese
Offensive of 25 November 1950 to 25 January 1951, in which,
in cruel winter conditions, several elements of the Eighth Army
were badly mauled and others saved only by a timely retreat,
the First Marine Division fought its way out of a carefully-set
trap at Chosin Reservoir, the Hungnam
Evacuation saved Tenth Corps to fight again, UN and US leaders
temporarily lost faith in their ability to stay the course in
Korea, and the Communist Chinese over-reached and set themselves
up for a counter-offensive that would, in February-April 1951,
return the Korean front lines to the vicinity of the 38th Parallel.
This section still needs several text entries, but all the photos
are there.
7 August 2000
- It's been a short week, but a productive one, as the staff
has "turned to" with a will to get a few long-festering
projects done (well, almost done) before decamping to the Leelanau
shore for a few weeks of scenery, fresh air, and (laptop in lap)
exercising with the Korean War (about which more later, we hope).
Our big story this time is a major presentation on the Battle
of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942. This, the first of World
War II's six carrier-to-carrier battles, was a Japanese tactical
victory, but a strategic defeat, as it represented the first
time one of their offensives was stopped.
We also added pages on four more CSS Alabama
officers, Engineers Miles
J. Freeman, Matthew
O'Brien and John
W. Pundt, and on her Marine officer, Captain Becket
K. Howell.
Our final new item, a "first" for the Online Library
is a ship's complete "Booklet of General Plans", showing
the general arrangement of the small seaplane tender USS Barnegat (AVP-10).
27 July 2000
- The past week's work concentrated on fleshing out our presentation
on USS Kearsarge
and adding to our coverage of the officers of CSS Alabama.
New Kearsarge pages include views of the ship over her
thirty-two years of service, images taken on board her, and pictures
of her miscellaneous activities and of her officers and men.
Among the latter are new pages on her Commanding Officer, Captain
(later Rear Admiral) John
A. Winslow and a member of her crew, Marine Corporal
Austin Quinby.
Among the newly added Alabama officers are First Lieutenant
Richard F. Armstrong,
her 2nd Lieutenant; First Lieutenant Arthur
Sinclair, IV, who was her 5th & later 4th Lieutenant;
Acting Master Irvine
S. Bulloch, her Sailing Master; Surgeon Francis
L. Galt, who was both Surgeon and Acting Paymaster; and
Midshipman E. Maffitt
Anderson.
24 July 2000
- The week just past has essentially been dedicated to finishing
our work on USS Squalus
and posting a major presentation on the notable careers of two
of the Civil War's most famous opponents, USS Kearsarge
and CSS Alabama.
The latter includes a large number of pictures on the battle
they fought on 19 June 1864 off Cherbourg, France. Pages
have also been done on Alabama's Commanding Officer, Raphael Semmes,
and her "Exec", John
McIntosh Kell. Some additional items, including additional
Alabama officers and more comprehensive coverage on Kearsarge,
will be posted during the next week or so.
Work is now complete on Squalus and her remarkable salvage in May-September 1939.
A presentation has also been made on USS Falcon
(ASR-2, originally AM-28), which supported that effort and
several other submarine salvage operations of the era between
the World Wars.
Finally, we are pleased to be able to provide modest coverage
on USS Skylark (ASR-20),
a long-serving little ship whose photos have been conspicious
by their absence in our collections, and apparently in those
of the National Archives. Fortunately, a good friend of the Naval
Historical Center had a view of her and has consented to make
a copy available to the "Online Library".
17 July 2000
- The first week of July saw the addition of a new "Online
Library" subject category: "Awards & Medals",
and its first entry, on The Medal
of Honor, including photographs of various versions of the
Medal and views of (or related to) some of its recipients.
Coverage was also added on eight Navymen who received the Medal
of Honor, seven of them divers. They include four men awarded
the medal for their underwater work on the USS Squalus
rescue and salvage effort in 1939: Chief Machinist's Mate William Badders;
Chief Boatswain's Mate Orson
L. Crandall; Chief Metalsmith James
H. McDonald and Chief Torpedoman John
Mihalowski. The other divers who have been awarded the
Medal are: Chief Gunner's Mate Frank
W. Crilley; Chief Gunner's Mate Thomas
Eadie and Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Owen
F. P. Hammerberg.
Also posted was a page on Captain John
P. Cromwell, who lost his life during the sinking of
USS Sculpin (SS-191)
in November 1943, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
for his heroic sacrifice on that occasion. We also posted coverage
on Sculpin and on her last Commanding Officer, Commander
Fred Connaway,
who was also lost with her. In 1939, when she was new, Sculpin
had played an important role in the rescue and salvage of her
sister ship, Squalus. The week's final new posting is
a page on one of the officers lost with Squalus, Ensign
Joseph H. Patterson.
10 July 2000
This page features July & August 2000 entries from the Online
Library's "What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, see What's
New in the Online Library of Selected Images;
For entries older than those seen here, see:
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2000;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in November & December 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in July through October 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in May & June 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 1999;
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 1999; and
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in October - December 1998
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Page completed 3 September 2000
Coding updated 8 April 2001