5 March 2010
Issue Number: 2010-08
Our 13th Year
~ AROUND THE TABLE ~
MEMBERS’
TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE:
1. 68th BOM Anniversary, Jacksonville
2. Santa Claus in March
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1. 68th BOM ANNIVERSARY, JACKSONVILLE
Ed. note: The following
is excerpted from a long message from Betty Howard, one of the organizers for
the NOUS-Navy League BOM commemoration to be held near Jacksonville, Florida on
June 5th. Ms. Howard is especially
seeking BOM vets to participate, but all interested parties are welcome. For more info, contact her as shown in your
“new issue” announcement.
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1 March 2010
From: Betty Howard
Florida
It is to be held at the Renaissance resort hotel at World Golf Village,
located on I-95 on the west side of St. Augustine, Florida. They just completed a 10 million dollar
renovation project at the hotel on the grounds of the famous World Golf Village
and Golf Hall of Fame. You can take a
"virtual tour" of the facility:
click here.
Regular room rates: $59.00 (plus 2 breakfast vouchers)
Suite room rates: $89.00 (plus 2 breakfast vouchers)
Reservations need to be made by: May 6, 2010
Phone: 800-266-9432, Monday – Friday, 8 am - 9 pm.
Ask for: Battle of Midway dinner, Renaissance Resort, World Golf
Village
I suggest you make your reservations as soon as possible.
We are hoping that, with the excellent room rates and all the attractions
close by, the vets attending will want to make it a two-day event. There
will be no driving home late at night in the dark from the center of a big
city.
The Renaissance hotel has all facilities on the ground floor. Everything opens up to the ground level
outside with over 300 free parking spaces, and free valet parking for the
vets. We are gearing everything for the
comfort of our vets, our heroes.
Ticket costs:
E-6 and below - $25
E-7 to O-3 - $35
O-4 to O-5 - $45
O-6 and above - $55
Civilians and retirees - $55
Dinner Dress:
White Jacket [Ed. note: that’s “dinner dress jacket (white)” for USN
personnel E-7 and above; “evening dress B” for Marines]
Civilians - Black Tie or Business Attire
VIP reception for midway veterans - 16:30
Cocktails - 18:30
Dinner - 19:30
--Betty Howard
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2. SANTA CLAUS IN MARCH
Ed. note: for our newer members, Ted “Santa” Kraver has
for many years provided WW2 books free to Roundtable members. He buys them cheap at an annual book auction
and mails them to anyone who asks.
Ted’s generosity is unique to the Roundtable, and it’s about the best
deal on books that can be found anywhere.
To request your books, contact him directly as shown in your “new issue”
announcement.
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21 February
2010
From: Ted Kraver
Arizona
Your Book Santa has been at it
again. The WW2 section of the VNSA book
sale produced about 30 books for the Roundtable. The cold start in line at 5:30 AM was warmed up by my 12-year old
granddaughter and son Chuck, who joined me at 7:00. Doors were opened at 8:00 and the surge took me into the scrum at
the WW2 tables. I hung a flashlight
around my neck this time and it was a lot easier checking titles as I crawled
under the tables to check the boxes of books.
Next year—pads for my 71-year old knees.
The drill is the same as past
years: Books and shipping are on me, my
give-back for a delightful time on the BOM Roundtable. You decide which books you want and email
back to me. In a couple of weeks
I will send them out by Media Mail in the U.S., regular mail outside of the
U.S. The remainder will be listed again
once more to wrap it up. So enjoy!
(LF = large format)
BATTLE OF MIDWAY:
Incredible Victory – Walter
Lord
Midway -- Fuchida and Okumiya
Miracle at Midway -- Prange (2)
1942:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo –
Lawson
Lonely Vigil --
Lord
War in the Pacific Vol 1 of
8. – Hoyt
Guadalcanal -- Hoyt
The Campaign for
Guadalcanal -- Coggins LF
Guadalcanal Diary --
Tregaskis
Victory at Guadalcanal --
Lee
PACIFIC THEATER:
Clash of the Carriers --
our own Barrett Tillman
Iwo Jima -- Newcomb
To the Marianas – Hoyt
Morison Vol. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas
The Pacific War (1931-1945) –
Ienaga
The War in the Pacific – Gailey
The Pacific War – Costello (3)
Briny to the Blue (memoirs) –
Peterson LF
Okinawa – Barker LF
Flight of the Avenger – Hyams
Baa Baa Black Sheep --
Boyington
WW2:
The Picture History of World
War II 1939-1945 LF
Navies of WW2 --
Preston LF
World War 2 Sulzberger (2)
SPECIAL FAVORITES:
Up Front – Bill Mauldin (2)
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~ NOW HEAR THIS! ~
NEWS
& INFO IN THIS ISSUE:
- BOM Anniversary and Unit Reunions
- Link of the Week
- Editor’s Notes
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BOM ANNIVERSARY AND UNIT REUNIONS
Here are the BOM anniversary and reunion events for 2010
that have been reported to us. Please click this link to add
or update an event to the list.
Each event has an open invitation for BOM veterans, and many are seeking
guest speakers. Interested members can
make direct contact with an event organizer via the e-mail address provided in
your “new issue” announcement.
Non-members can request info here.
1. May 26: NOUS BOM luncheon, Macao’s
Restaurant, Phoenix, AZ.
2. May 31 - June 5: “Return
to Midway” Pearl Harbor symposium and Midway tour. For details, click here (.pdf
file)
3. June 3: NOUS “Dining Out” at Army-Navy
Country Club, Arlington, VA.
4. June 3 - 6: Annual Yorktown
CV-5 reunion, Little Rock, AR.
5. June 4: USN BOM commemoration at the Navy
Memorial, Washington, D.C.
6. June 4: Naval War College, BOM
commemoration with Jon Parshall as guest speaker, Newport, RI.
7. June 4: NOUS “Dining Out” Newport RI (Jon
Parshall also guest speaker at this one).
8. June 4: NOUS BOM luncheon at the Hess
Club, Houston, TX.
9. June 5: USN BOM commemoration aboard USS Midway
museum, San Diego, CA
10. June 5: Navy League BOM
luncheon, Phoenix, AZ.
11. June 5: NOUS “Dining Out”
at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
12. June 5: NOUS “Dining Out” at Marines
Memorial Club, San Francisco, CA.
13. June 5: NOUS & Navy League “Dining
Out” at Renaissance Center,
near Jacksonville, FL. (Note: date corrected from last issue.)
14. June ?: (date TBA) NOUS
BOM commemoration, New York, NY.
15. June ?: (date TBA) NOUS
BOM commemoration, Virginia Beach, VA.
NOUS = Naval Order of the United States
TBA = to be announced
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LINK OF THE WEEK
This is a followup to the Link of the Week in our last
issue, which featured the personal after-action report by
Marine F2A pilot William Brooks. It’s
John Greaves’ fine painting of the action described by Brooks in his report,
during which he was forced to dual a Zero over Midway with his landing gear
partly lowered.
Click
here for the link of the week.
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EDITOR’S NOTES
~ I didn’t include the link to the Bill Brooks painting in
the last issue because John Greaves’ web site was temporarily down. You can find his home page again at the
usual URL: http://www.johngreavesart.ca/
~ Roundtable member Al Simons in Florida is
seeking information on VS-6 commander W. E. Gallaher, something beyond what’s
reported in the BOM histories. If you
have info on Gallaher before or after the battle, Al would like to hear from
you—contact him as shown in your “new issue” announcement.
~ I just received a copy of The Pacific, Hugh
Ambrose’s new book version of the HBO miniseries. Hugh says the book has some unique content not found in the video
production (the BOM, for example), so I’m looking forward very much to getting
started on it. A review will be
forthcoming.
~ Kate Dolan in Australia says The Pacific (the
book, that is) is available there from Angus & Robertson, and also
at K-Mart. There is exceptional
interest in Australia since a portion of the miniseries was filmed in and near
Melbourne.
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