41st Division

12/24/2023

To all our Members in various countries I wish all y’all a Very Merry Christmas be safe and love the one you’re with!
Mike Wewers 🎄🎁

11/28/2023

Cozy

GIs eating K-rations in France on Thanksgiving in 1944. As you count your blessings tomorrow, remember to be thankful for all the men and women who can't be home for Thanksgiving because they're out there keeping the rest of us safe. ❤️

11/25/2023

Aren’t they beautiful? Queens of the oceans!

I was taking a look at the Facebook reports and saw that the Navy General Board page has surpassed over 2 million visitors for three months in a row! Those are some impressive numbers that rivaled the previous page when it had 90,000 followers!

Real-life commitments have kept me busier than I would have liked for the past 8 months. I have been unable to produce as many of the more detailed, technical articles. The same applies to the website and the other social media pages. However, I am pleased to say that things should begin smoothing out over the coming weeks.

Some new Facebook articles are on the way.
- A look at the hangar system on the Yamato class.
- A series on the preliminary designs of the Alaska class. It will also be joined with an argument on why there was nothing inherently wrong with the concept of large cruisers.

A couple of new website articles are also under varying stages of completion. The website itself will also be getting a revamp.

Outside of that, I have some new ideas and things I would like to test out. Additions to the website, new social media stuff, etc. Further bulletins as events warrant.

That being said, I would like to thank everyone who has joined us up until now. Even at our slowest, the growth and support has been wonderful! I'd also like to thank the mods for the Navy General Board group, the admins on the other social media pages, and our contributors for all of their help.

Fair winds and following seas!

11/17/2023

Here they go again ❤️🇺🇸

“But what I loved was that the planes I flew never asked if you were a man or a woman; they flew just as well for me as anyone else.”

- Elizabeth “Betty” Wall Strohfus

11/17/2023

They helped make it possible to fight in far away places!

Female workers with cutting torches at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Works in Gary Indiana, replacing men who were called to duty during WW2 - 1942

LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

10/19/2023

Think she was bringing some our warriors home?

USS Mississippi BB-41 passes through the Panama Canal in October 1945 on the way to the East Coast after the Japanese Surrender

LIFE Magazine Archives - Thomas Mcavoy Photographer

10/19/2023

Very nice image.👍

Original Color Picture of USS Nevada BB-36 anchored in Lahaina Roads, Hawaii during Fleet Problem XXI - 1940

LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

10/12/2023

This one was just to historic to miss. Man do I wish many of these aircraft aboard were still flying today! All good thing must come to an end.

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Tarawa (CV-40) in San Francisco Bay, California (USA), with 25 other ships on 26 September 1947. The deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Group 1 (CVAG-1): Grumman F8F-1/-1B Bearcats and Grumman F6F-5P Hellcats of Fighter Squadron 1A (VF-1A) "Red Rippers" (T-1XX) and VF-2A "Flying Ubangis" (T-2XX);
Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldivers of Attack Squadron 1A (VA-1A) "Tophatters" (T-3XX);

10/12/2023

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

David Stigall, Dennie Sides
Thanks for your interest, comments welcome.

10/12/2023

Even Generals regularly utilized Jeeps for transportation.

Major General Horace Fuller smoking in a jeep. Australia, 1942. Wallace Kirkland Photo/LIFE

10/11/2023

Sorry, no I’m not , Warship story!

The French training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc during a visit to Hawaii in 1933.

Commissioned in 1931, Jeanne d'Arc was a unique cruiser designed to function as both a training ship during times of peace and as a fully capable warship in the event of war. To accomplish this, she was designed to military standards and carried a heavy armament of eight 155mm guns in four twin turrets. To serve as a cadet training ship, she had extensive accommodations to permit over 150 cadets to sail on her in addition to the standard crew.

Following her completion, Jeanne d'Arc soon embarked on an extensive around-the-world cruise. Other similar tours were conducted right up until the Second World War.

During the war, Jeanne d'Arc would initially take part in the hunt for German raiders and the blockading of neutral harbors to bottle up other German ships. She later fled to Martinique and waited there until defecting to the Free French in 1943. She was modernized and served throughout the end of World War 2.

After the war, she would go on to resume her training cruiser duties. She would see continued service until 1964 as a training ship before being retired and scrapped.