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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in March & April 1999
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 January & February 1999; and
What's New in the Online Library of Selected
Images? -- Entries posted in October - December 1998
- The past week saw further progress toward completing our
presentation on the Battle
of Midway, 4-7 June 1942.
In addition, pages were added on several ships that took part
in the battle, including:
the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu
and cruiser Mikuma,
both of which were lost during the battle of Midway; the U.S.
Navy seaplane tender Ballard
(DD-267, later AVD-10), and destroyer Hammann
(DD-412). The latter was sunk by a Japanese submarine on
6 June 1942, while assisting with salvage attempts on USS Yorktown
(CV-5).
Also posted were pages on the man for whom USS Hammann
was named, Ensign Charles
H. Hammann, USNRF, a World War I Medal of Honor winner, and
the second ship to be named for Ensign Hammann: USS Hammann
(DE-131).
18 April 1999
- Our presentation on the Battle
of Midway, 4-7 June 1942 is now open.
Though still incomplete, it will be grow rapidly over the next
few weeks to provide pictorial coverage for most aspects of the
battle for which photographs are available. At present, it mainly
contains views relating to the actions and loss of USS Yorktown
during this battle, one of naval history's great watershed events.
11 April 1999
- New additions this week include one important U.S. Navy ship,
and one Japanese Navy ship.
The Japanese ship is the escort aircraft carrier Kaiyo,
converted in 1942-43 from the transport Argentina Maru,
which joined the Online Library last week.
The U.S. Navy ship is the carrier USS Yorktown
(CV-5), one of the ships that "held the line" in
the Pacific during the first half of 1942. The pages just posted
on her represent just the start of extensive coverage on USS
Yorktown and on the June 1942 Battle of Midway, in which
she was lost. Additional pages on both will be posted during
the coming weeks.
The Battle of Midway and the May 1998 discovery and examination
of Yorktown's wreck at a depth of over three miles are
the subjects of a television documentary scheduled to air on
14 April.
4 April 1999
- This week's additions to the Online Library principally include
a presentation on the Potsdam
Conference of July-August 1945. This opens a new section
on World War II Diplomatic Activities.
In addition, pages on two Japanese navy ships were added, featuring
one image between them. These ships are the "sister"
transports Argentina
Maru and Brazil
Maru.
Other than that, a lot of preliminary Midway work was done, the
results of which will be come apparent shortly.
28 March 1999
- Three Japanese Navy ships, two U.S. Navy ships and a U.S.
Navy officer were added to the Online Library during the last
week. Most of these represent the "bow wave" of a thorough
presentation on the June 1942 Battle of Midway that will gradually
emerge during March and April.
The new Japanese ships are the aircraft carriers Akagi,
Kaga and
Soryu,
all of which were sunk during the Battle of Midway.
The U.S. Navy ships are USS Talladega
(APA-208), an attack transport completed late in World War
II that saw extensive service during the 1950s and 1960s, and
USS Nautilus (SS-168),
which played an important role in the Midway battle.
The new person is Nautilus' commanding officer at that
time, Rear Admiral William
H. Brockman (1904-1979).
21 March 1999
- During the last week, work was concluded on the Japan
Capitulates, August - September 1945 section. This involved
the addition of six pages each to the subsections:
Initial Occupation
of Japan, 28 August - 2 September 1945 and
Surrender of Japanese
Forces Outside of Japan, 22 August - mid-September 1945.
A new topic, "Places", was also opened, with its intitial
offering being a page of photographs of the aftermath of the
tragic 17 July 1944 ammunition explosion at the Port
Chicago Naval Magazine, California.
We added coverage on two new people and several ships. Most of
the ships were involved in operations during the Japanese Surrender,
and the photos featured for them include views cross-referenced
from the coverage posted on that subject.
The new people are officers for whom two of those ships were
named: Brigadier General
Robert H. Dunlap (1879-1931), a notable Marine Corps officer
of the first three decades of the 20th Century, and
Commodore Uriah Phillips
Levy (1792-1862), a Navy officer whose many accomplishments
included successful advocacy of the elimination of flogging as
a punishment in the Naval Service.
Ships added, all from the World War II era, include:
USS Benevolence (AH-13);
USS Burke (DE-215,
later APD-65); USS Cumberland
Sound (AV-17); USS Dunlap
(DD-384); USS Levy
(DE-162); USS Reeves
(DE-156, later APD-52); USS Steele
(DE-8); USS Waukesha
(AKA-84) and USS Wileman
(DE-22).
14 March 1999
- Work has begun on a new major Online Library topic -- The
Second World War. This will undertaken over several years, generally
presenting one campaign or other major subject area at a time.
Our first World War II section covers the end of the Pacific
War, and is entitled: Japan
Capitulates, August - September 1945 .
This is a large section, treating a variety of end-of-the-war
subjects including reactions to the news of peace, the Allied
fleet off Japan at the time of the surrender, the initial occupation
of Japan, the formal surrender ceremonies on USS Missouri
and the surrender of Japanese forces outside the home islands.
It will ultimately feature nearly 200 individual pictures in
about three-dozen pages. As of now, 25 pages containing 134 individual
views (32 of which are repeated as specially Selected Views
for the benefit of patrons in a hurry) are completed and ready
for viewing. Another 12 pages, with 65 more images, will follow
over the next week or two.
7 March 1999
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 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 25 April 1999
Coding updated 8 April 2001