From Wed Dec 24 09:43:07 1997
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>May you all obtain your heart’s desire for the Holidays.
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>Warm regards,
>
>James

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From Tue Dec 23 21:19:14 1997
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>From: Tom Robison
>Subject: Book
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>I saw a book at the book store tonight, about the naval careers of many
>well-known actors. I thought I would remember the name of the book, and the
>authors, but of course it has left me.
>
>Anyway, if you’re interested, look for a blue dust jacket with small photos
>of many actors all around the perimiter.
>
>Merry Christmas, all.
>Tom
>
>
>Tom Robison
>Ossian, Indiana
>tcrobi@mindspring.com

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From Tue Dec 23 19:08:26 1997
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>From: rickt@cris.com (Eric Bergerud)
>Subject: Re: Baseball
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> >With apologies to non-baseball fans (and off topic).
> >
> >Steve Alvin quoted:
> >
> >”I have snatched my share of joys from the grudging hand of fate
> >as I have jogged along, but never has life held for me anything
> >quite so entrancing as baseball.”–Clarence Darrow
> >
> >Let me add another VERY meaningful quote/appriasal:
> >
> >”…Baseball is the greatest game ever invented.”–Frank Layton,
> >former head coach of the National Basketball Association’s Utah
> >Jazz in an interview on KTAR, Phoenix, AZ.
> >
>All American owe baseball and football an immense debt of gratitude. Without
>these noble sports, soccer might be popular on our country. If the American
>people begin to appreciate a game that is played for 90 minutes and OFTEN
>results in a scoreless tie, it is time to close shop. At least yacht racing
>has winners.
>Eric Bergerud, 531 Kains Ave, Albany CA 94706, 510-525-0930

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From Mon Dec 22 10:43:48 1997
>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:41:25 -0800
>From: Mike Potter
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>Subject: Re: Destroying the Königsberg, 1914-15
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>Merry Christmas Kevin,
>
>Citing your excellent =Königsberg: A German East African Raider= as my
>primary source, I recently contributed a short account of the Königsberg
>operation to Mahan.lst, an Internet discussion list about naval history
>and events. Here is one of several replies.
>
> From your book, it seems clear that the spotters used wireless
>telegraphy as Dr Francis suggests. Have you any information about the
>electronics on the aircraft?
>
> > Does anyone have any more details on exactly how the British seaplanes
> > “spotted” for the Royal Navy? The Farman and the Caudron were early
> > planes, had they been fitted with streaming aerials or something? Did
> > they use wireless, perhaps some sort of morse code? I’ve always been
> > under the impression that aerial spotting doesn’t become reliable until
> > the 1920s.
> >
> > Timothy L. Francis
> > Historian
> > Naval Historical Center
> > email address: Francis.Timothy@nhc.navy.mil
> > voice: (202) 433-6802

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From Mon Dec 22 13:53:39 1997
>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:48:36 -0800
>From: Mike Potter
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>Kevin Patience’s answer to Timothy Francis’s question:
> >
> > Merry xmas Mike,
> > Amazing how time flies, another year gone.
> > I sent a note to Tim Francis and confirmed that morse code was used by
> > key and trailing aerial using a clock code with north at 12 oclock.
> > Anything else on KBG?
> > rgds Kevin

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From Sun Dec 21 17:09:19 1997
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>From: “Louis R. Coatney”
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>To: Mahan@microwrks.com, H-Russia@h-net.msu.edu, H-Holocaust@h-net.msu.edu
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>Subject: My Fair and Positive Reception on H-Holocaust
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>The past week or so, I have been given the chance on H-Holocaust to voice
> my opinion about the need for Nazi Holocaust investigators (and survivors)
> to share whatever they can to help researchers and victims of Soviet
> atrocities in their own struggle for historical truth and justice.
>
>I’m no expert on the Nazi Holocaust and some of my questions have touched
> some of the deepest sensitivities of H-Holocaust members … some of
> whom are Survivors … but however impassioned, the responses have been
> basically fair, thoughtful, and reasoned.
>
>I feel much better about the prospects for historical truth and justice
> … for the better future *everyone* is striving for … now. Maybe
> there is hope for humanity after all.
>
>For sure people can do much more working together instead of working
> against each other.
>
>Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

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From Sat Dec 20 23:21:14 1997
>From: EWitten507
>Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 01:16:26 EST
>To: WWII-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU, WWI-L@RAVEN.CC.UKANS.EDU,
> MILHST-L@UKANS.EDU, mahan@microwrks.com, MARHST-L@POST.QUEENSU.CA,
> sub-list@webcom.com
>Subject: OFF-TOPIC: Double Dialing Speed of Modems
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>I know this is off-topic, but for those of us who use modems as
>our means of connection to the Internet, the following suggestion
>concerning modem initialization strings has proved useful to me.
>
>If you have a touch tone phone, you can put the S11=50 parameter in your
>modem initialization string to double the speed of dialing. Try and see if
>it works on your phone system. For example, my modem initialization
>string before I added the S11 parameter read AT&F&C1&D2X4. After I
>added the S11 parameter, it read AT&F&C1&D2X4 S11=50. I hope that
>someone else can benefit from this tip like I have.
>
>Happy holidays!!!
>
>Edward Wittenberg
>ewitten507@aol.com

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From Thu Dec 18 22:54:55 1997
>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:53:04 -0500
>From: Brooks A Rowlett
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> World War II Discussion List
>Subject: “Smokey” Stover
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>On one of the mailing lists I am on there was a mention, in a thread on
>nicknames in maritime services, of a comic strip with a character called
>”Smokey” Stover.This prompted me to generate the following:
>
>The name “Smokey” Stover is of some minor note in USN and cinema
>history. In 1943 a documentary was made about brand new ESSEX class
>carrier, CV-10 USS YORKTOWN. Lt Elisha Terril Stover acquired the
>nickname “Smokey” probably from the source cited. He flew Wildcats off
>USS HORNET at Midway, and wound up on Guadalcanal after HORNET (CV-8)
>was sunk at Santa Cruz Oct 42. After interesting experiences on the
>’canal, Stover returned home to become the naval aviator assigned to
>the new Combat Information Center (CIC) on the new carrier YORKTOWN.
>He is seen and introduced in this role in the film THE FIGHTING LADY
>(not to be confused with the Korean War MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY which
>seems to be a rip-off of BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI). He had begged all along
>to be returned to the iar, and was eventually re-assigned to Fighting 5
>(VF-5) the Hellcat squadron in YORKTOWN’s air wing. A very popular
>officer, he was forced to bail out of his plane during the big strike
>on Truk, Feb 44. He was reported as missing in action, but was believed
>to have drifted ashore at this major Japanese base.
>
>Squadronmate Dick Newhafer composed a final tribute that evening:
>The call came
> On metal-fashioned wings
>And echoed til it spent;
> He bade farewell
>To all the well-loved things
> And then he went.
>A fresh wind
> Bore him away tonight,
>The world is sad,
> He gave his mirth
>For all the world’s delight,
> T’was all he had
>
>Not great, but as good a farewell as any.
>
>Postwar it was learned that of 7 downed US aviators who came ashore,
>all were beaten and tortured by their captors. Then , the day after the
>raids ceased, all were marched to the beach and beheaded with swords.
>
>The above is from THE FIGHTING LADY (book) by Clark G Reynolds. A
>wartime biography of this Junior USN naval was published, called THE
>STORY OF SMOKEY STOVER. Just another casualty in some ways, but not a
>faceless or nameless one thanks to his friends and the whims of fate and
>documentaries.
>
>-Brooks A Rowlett

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From Thu Dec 18 21:34:30 1997
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> > I suspect they were “good capitalists” with their license revenues
> > waiting for them after the war. So that they had funds on hand to get
> > back to work with after the inevitable departure of the Austrian
> > Corporal.
> >
> > One clarification: Cinchona may be/have been raised in Indonesia, but
> > its original source is South America.
> >
> > I have heard of this Japanese controlled source problem before. But
> > what about the original source? Did they, maybe, use Atabrine just
> > ’cause it was cheaper? Or maybe the South American supply is/was not
> > adequate to satisfy the demand?
> >
> > Bill Riddle
> >
>You’re right of course. Quinine is arguably the oldest significant medicinal
>herb that actually works and dates from the early Spanish Empire. The
>appropriate volume in the series of the Army’s medical history details the
>development of atabrine industry by US. They cited lack of supply – it may
>well be that it had become a plantation crop by the 20th Century and
>something that you cannot create quickly. The sheer numbers of tablets were
>staggering. Several vets told me that quinine (some was around early in the
>war) had uncomfortable side effects – especially a ringing in the ears. BTW:
>atabrine’s side effects were NOT well known at the time it was being “field
>tested” on US and allied troops (medical supplies were high on the Lend
>Lease priority list). Rumors concerning sterility and it’s known tendency to
>yellow the skin caused customer resistence at first. Officers were ordered
>to force men to take it at mess. The reality of malaria attacks overcame
>this barrier and the stuff was accepted readily soon enough. Guess no harm
>was done. Either that or post WWII lawyers had not yet honed their art to
>today’s degree.
>Eric Bergerud, 531 Kains Ave, Albany CA 94706, 510-525-0930

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From Wed Dec 17 23:01:14 1997
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:05:39 -0800
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>John Forester wove a web:
>
>(snipped, an anecdote almost as attention-maintaining as the
>magnificently simple tales his father told)
>
>I remember first reading (actually, trying to read) the three in one
>Captain Hornblower at about age six, and in the years of my childhood I
>continued to devour every available bit and weeviled-biscuit of CSF. I
>recall the deep disgust with which I exited my first viewing of the
>movie Hornblower. How could CSF have allowed such a travesty? How
>could Gregory Peck, the ideal selection for the part, assist in its
>perpetration? That was before I understood that authors had little say
>in screen adaptations and story lines.
>
>And now, fortunate association with this list has once more brought the
>author to life in the vivid anecdotes of his son. CSF lives in them,
>and his ships, great and small, are recommisioned by them. I sleep
>again in Hornblower’s cabin, and clear is the sound of the officer of
>the watch’s heels on the deck above.
>
>Thank you, John Forester, for sharing with us both the pleasure and a
>bit of the pain of having known him. May his tales live on to keep
>other little boys’ bedsight lights on late for years to come.
>–
>”A little learning is a dangerous thing,
> But more is inevitably catastrophic!”
>

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