THE HARD LUCK LINERS

You know you don't ever wish bad luck on anyone, but there are times that "bad luck" just seems to follow you around like "sticky honey" on a door knob.
Well that seemed to be the case when King Emmanues III of Italy wanted to name two passenger ships with his daughters names.
Let me tell you...things just did not go well with these two ships.

HERE is the story...and it is almost unbelivable!!

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN THE T2 TANKER

In this day an age just about everyone realizes that just about everything 'runs' on oil.

Well let me tell you when WW II broke out the nations at hand soon realized  there destiny relied on the control of fuel for all their equipment of battle.  Actually the Japanese were one of those....that simpily ran out of fuel for her ships as well as her planes.

Some people looked ahead and seen how the transportation of fuel need to be of the up-most importance.  So...a single ship design was sought after and eventually 520 T2 type tankers became the most widely produced tanker in history to get "product" from point A to point B.

HERE is the story

TOO FEW, TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

If you are at all interested in the "Naval Airborne" side of WW II, this article I'm sure will be somewhat interesting to you.

When the Japanese jumped into the war....they had superbly trained Navy pilots, with plenty of experience.  Actually none of the Japanese pilots that attack Pearl Harbor had less than 650-hrs of flying.....but things went down hill pretty fast from that point on.

This article also provides some idea on what the US Navy pilots had to go through to eventually become well above their Japanese foes.

Now I know Naval aviation is not interesting to all that venture into my articles.....but even if you got "some" interest I don't think this article will disappoint you.

Click HERE

INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA

SO VALIANT THE HEROES

SO FUTILE THE MISSION

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I'm sure many of you are familiar with the title: Invasion of North Africa, but on this 'invasion' are you familiar with the two former US Coast Guard cutters that was sacrificed to make this invasion possible?

There was only one way into the Oran harbor...and this was blocked by a 'gate' and it was up to these to Banff-class ships to get the job done

In doing there job...many men were lost as well as their ships.  Click HERE to give this most interesting article a read.

THE LACONIA ORDER

Here is a case where a huge ship, the RMS Passenger Liner RMS Laconia, was torpedoed by a German U-boat.  Well the U-boat did a number on the ship...and she was going down, but when the U-boat captain found out there were 2,444 crew and passengers, as well as Italian POWs....it raised a big rescue dilemma.

The U-boat Captain attempted to rescue the Italian POWs, whom was an ally of Germany.....well it didn't go well after Allied warships and aircraft became involved. Click HERE for a very interesting read.