James D. Hornfischer

Bookman. Agent, author, navalist, publishing operative. #books #WWII #navalhistory

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@kershaw_alex And the crazy Japanese govt was unimpressed

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@xbradtc She is named Sitka

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I think she’s mocking my writing

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Stratfor’s Map Provokes Russian-Turkish Distrust https://t.co/JV0pEC0Vzo via @GVS_News

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@chrispy_thomas Thanks

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Bloomberg https://t.co/sY0hJRhYkS via @flipboard
What was iat Colgate, I was fortunateto be able to study with the great Briton Busch.

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

My newest book: "FIRST PLATOON: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance."

Coming January 12th.

If you have nothing to hide, do you have nothing to fear?

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@swodog94 @cannoneerno4 at which point USS George Washington, the first SSBN, prepared to enter commission, first of a new type of capital ship.

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Rare photo here: all four Iowas together in a single frame, June 1954 location unspecified. credit: USN

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@swodog94 @cannoneerno4 The last of them, USS Wisconsin, remained in commission till 1958.

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Such a super abundance of talent@BerkleeOnline
. My father worked here for 25 great years: https://t.co/MavKXrl1cM

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Video - UNSINKABLE by James Sullivan - FIVE MEN and the INDOMITABLE RUN of the USS PLUNKETT https://t.co/Ye4U5l3YH5

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@HooHoosiers Yes! And Johnston, Hoel, Samuel B. Roberts, please (DDG's FFG's)

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USN ship naming is back on the right track!:
SECNAV Names Two Future Virginia-class Submarines Tang, Wahoo
Not Attributed, https://t.co/z5yS0hiuB5, November 18
USS Tang (SSN 805) and USS Wahoo (SSN 806) will carry the names of two storied World War II submarines.
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@tshugart3 Not a nuke

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@MightyJingles I opened a ticket, it WG stillcan’t tell me how to opt out of the WOWS version 10 upgrade, which puts Mac users out of action forever.

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@kershaw_alex continuing uncannily to hunt down and illuminate the most amazing stories from World War II in Europe !

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Remembering only draftee ever to rise from private to general, Keith Ware, received every medal for valor, close friend of Audie Murphy, who saved his life, fighting hard today in Vosges with 3rd ID, killed in Vietnam 1968, a star of my next book, Against All Odds. #WWII #MOH