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GENE SLOVER
This picture was taken in Japan. At the time the Japanese did not have any color film so the original picture was black and white. The Japanese photographer who took and colored the picture kept asking me what color my hair was and I kept telling him that is was a very dark red.
When I went back to get the picture few days later he explained to me that most Japanese were colorblind and that he could not tell what color my hair was. He kept apologizing for getting the color wrong and was more than willing to try to correct it. He could see all of the other colors when he looked at me. He just could not see the hair color or tint. I told him the picture was fine as we were getting underway the next morning and I might not be back.
The head of the crow on the rating badge is supposed to look toward your body. The reason it does not is that the picture is taken right after the USN had everyone put their rate badge on the left arm but the rating badge in the picture is for the right arm. Some ratings in the navy were right arm rated and others were left arm rated. The navy did away with the right arm ratings and from then on everyone wore their rating badges on their left arm as in the picture.
If you were right arm rated then you were also called a line petty officer which put you in a little different class and established the pecking order. The insignia has a rangefinder which designates me as a fire controlman. In the early 1950's the fire control rating was changed to fire control technician. The fire control technician rating badge had a director on it with a rectangular antenna on top of the director.
COLORBLIND:
To be colorblind does not mean that you see only black and white and shades of grey. Not being able to see or tell the difference between the lighter shades or hue of any color is being color blind. Ask anyone who has been tested for their ability to see all of the colors and their hues.
When people go to the art museum and look at the paintings they see the same painting but many will see each painting differently because the see the colors and hues of the painting differently. This is one of the attractions of the art museum and there are always discussions about how each one sees the painting.
This failure of everyone to see all of the colors alike is why and how camouflage painting of ships works and why camouflage clothing works.
It’s hiding in plain sight because a large majority of viewers will not see some or all of the colors and their eyes misinterpret what they are seeing.
NEWLY ADDED FILES
1991 Understanding Soviet Naval Developments
Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Volume 2: Fire Control 1958 Edition
Principals of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
The Mechanical Analog Fire Control Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell
Blue Angels from Belly and Cockpit Cams
Rare and Astounding Photo of USS Missouri, BB-63
Railway Artillery 1921 Characteristics and Scope of Utility
Naval 14" Railway Guns in 1918 France
Life Aboard a WWII Carrier in the Pacific
Iowa Class Battleships: Top Fighting Ship Video
WWII Posters, War Bonds and Victory Gardens: a Slide Show With Music of the Era
Japanese Underwater Ordnance: Mines, Depth Charges & Torpedoes April 1945
Fullam & Hart and other ordnance books and articles from 1856-1916
USS_Texas Update Video
Blue Angels: How Do They Do It? Video
US Navy Cook-Book 1920
USS Missouri Transit to Drydock Video
USS Nimitz – How do they do it?
Our Defenseless Coasts; two essays from 1886 and 1887
Navy Command Center of the Future
USS Yorktown Arrives in Charleston, SC June 1975
USS Yorktown CV-10 Slide Show
Rate Insignia of Navy Enlisted Personnel
USS Truxtun Commissioned in Charleston, SC April, 2009
Aviator Slang and Military Acronyms
Navy's father of Aegis dies
USS Laffey DD-724
USS Missouri Launch Day, 29 January 1944
USS Missouri, BB-63, Holystoning
USS Missouri, BB-63, Goes to Drydock for Repairs
Carrier Landing (traps) at Night Onto a Pitching Deck
Carrier Landing (traps) in Daylight Onto a Pitching Deck
Carrier Landing S3 Viking viewed from cockpit video
Navy Seals v. Somali Pirates video
Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun development and testing video
X-47B UCAS Unmanned Combat Air System video
20 mm Phalanx CIWS firing video
USS North Carolina BB-55 "The Showboat" video
Night Engagement at Empress Augusta Bay video (November, 1943)
Soviet Naval Ships 1965-1975 Silent video
Italian and German Sneak Craft video
Aerial Torpedo Attack with Mk 13 Torpedo video
Report From Home (Monthly News of the day-- July 1945)
Japanese Balloon Bomb video
US Navy Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard Drill Team video
Free Notification of New and Updated Files... Newsreaders Explained
My Behind the Locks Panama Canal Inside Story
Simmons Heavy Ordnance Publication, 1837 (pdf)
USS Cassin Young 20 MM Anti-Aircraft Gun video
USS Cassin Young 40 MM Anti-Aircraft Gun video
USS Cassin Young 5in/38 caliber Gun video
USS Cassin Young Hedgehog anti submarine weapon video
USS Cassin Young Torpedo video
COAST DEFENSE SHORE BATTERIES
USS Raton
SSR-270
Panama Canal Transit 1957-58 video
USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt CVB/CVA 42 in Transit Panama Canal 1957-58 video
USS Wisconsin BB-64 Panama Canal Transit 1957-58 video
USS Missouri BB-63 Panama Canal Transit 1957-58 video
USS Tarawa
CVA-40
Panama Canal Transit 1957-58 video
PICTURES NO 1
US NAVY SEA AND AIR POWER video
LOADING the 16" GUNS video
8" TURRET BEING REMOVED FROM USS LEXINGTON CV2
US NAVY CARRIERS 1922 TO 1945
GUNS OF FREEDOM video
USS IOWA BB61 IN TRANSIT
PANAMA CANAL 1986 video
THE GOONEY BIRDS OF MIDWAY ISLAND
DALGHREN USN PROVING GROUND video
MAJOR CALIBER GUNS AND TURRETS
MAIN BATTERY FIRE CONTROL video
SOME DETAILS ABOUT BAG GUNS
FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS PART 1 video
FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS PART 2 video
U.S. Navy Projectiles and Fuzes, was created by the U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School in June of 1945.
Gun Mount And Turret Catalog, Ordnance Pamphlet 1112, 1945
Navy catalog of Gun Mounts and Turrets that includes almost all the U.S.
Navy WW II equipment.
The Howell Torpedo, 14.2 Inches, Mark I., 1896, is a manual for the
first torpedo to be produced in quantity by the U.S. Navy. From
1890-1896 it was used as an antisurface ship torpedo fired from
battleships and torpedo-boats.
The Schwartzkopff Torpedo U.S.N., Descriptions Nomenclatures and
Plates., 1903, is a manual for an early torpedo purchased by the U.S.
Navy. It was used as an antisurface ship torpedo fired from
battleships and torpedo-boats.
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 5"/38 GUN
OP 635 TORPEDOES MARK 14 AND 23 TYPES
CIC COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER
USN TRIVIA
THE SLOVER BOYS WWII
THE PECKING ORDER OF USN PETTY OFFICER RATINGS
TEXAS IS JUST ONE OF OUR STATES
ARMOR
USN GUNS, RANGE TABLES, AMMUNITION DESIGN AND TESTING
NAVAL FIREPOWER DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES
US NAVAL ORDNANCE BOOKS
COASTAL AND RIVERINE CRAFT ARMAMENT
NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY 1937
NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY VOLUME 1, NAVAL ORDNANCE 1957 EDITION
NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY VOLUME 2, FIRE CONTROL 1958 EDITION
FLOW SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF THE MK 1 MOD 7 FORD COMPUTER
FLOW SCHEMATIC OF THE RANGE KEEPER MK 10
QUARTERMASTER 1ST AND CHIEF NAVTRA 10151-D
DEAD RECKONING DRT OPERATION ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION
SIGNALMAN 3 & 2
ENGINEERING, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
REDUCTION GEAR AND TURBINES
SELSYNS AND SYNCHROS
FORD RANGE KEEPER MARK II
MARK 14 GUN SIGHT
THE 20MM GUN BOOK
THE 40MM GUN BOOK
THE 5"/38 GUN BOOK
8"/55 RAPID FIRE GUN AND TURRET
OP 769 CONFIGURATION OF THE THREE GUN TURRETS USS NEW JERSEY 30 APRIL 1968 REACTIVATION
SECRET FUZE
USS WORCESTER CL 144
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
THE USN
COAST DEFENSE SHORE BATTERIES
DESTROYERS
CRUISERS
USN BATTLE CRUISERS
BATTLESHIPS
CARRIERS
DRYDOCKS
SUBMARINES
EXTERNAL LINKS
The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. Information on American Seacoast Defenses and the Coast Artillery Corps.
WWII SUBMARINE WAR PATROL REPORTS
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY IN COLOR
THE US NAVY AND THE PANAMA CANAL
HISTORIC NAVAL SHIPS ASSOCIATION
JJ's PEARL HARBOR GALLERY
"The Battle Off Samar - Taffy III at Leyte Gulf"
MARITIME HISTORY
ALL THE WORLDS BATTLECRUISERS
A Magnificent Fight:
Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
NavWeaps
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