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Sumatra at sea in English waters, May 1940
If you are a World War II history buff, the Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of World War II is a web site that might be of interest to you.
I stumbled upon this outstanding site while thumbing through the bibliography of Vincent P. O’Hara’s The U.S. Navy Against the Axis.
Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of World War II is the project of Jan Visser, an IT auditor in the Netherlands.
I urge you to check it out. Plenty of photos and ships’ histories about one of our Allies…
The Navy has a “culture problem” with its past, the service’s top historian says.
Neither sailors nor leaders have enough appreciation for how useful history could be in their day-to-day decision-making, said retired Rear Adm. Jay DeLoach. But he hopes to change that.
DeLoach said he has big plans for the newly renamed Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly known as the Naval Historical Center, at the Washington Navy Yard. It owns more than 1 million historical artifacts and hundreds of thousands of documents and pieces of art; runs a dozen museums; has control of every sunken Navy ship and aircraft in the world; and even owns two patches of forest from which engineers get the wood to repair the frigate Constitution — which the command also oversees. He wants to put all of those resources to work.
Full article here.
After decades of neglect, hope and change is coming to Naval History. Just needs the $$$$ since decades of neglect can’t be reversed overnight. For pennies on the dollar that is wasted by the bureaucracy, the Navy’s history program could be FIXED!
What advice do you have for the newly renamed Naval History and Heritage Command? How would you fix Naval History?
h/t Sid
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