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As Commander Bartlett directed the damage-control efforts, a crewman handed him a leather wallet. “Where did this come from?” “The Jap pilot, sir,” came the reply. “His body’s up on the flight deck.” Bartlett stuffed the wallet into his pocket and forgot about it.
- Randolph Bartlett | U.S. Naval Institute
Dr. Randolph Bartlett is a retired professor of history at...
- Randolph Bartlett | U.S. Naval Institute
Dr. Randolph Bartlett is a retired professor of history at Cape Cod Community College. Articles by Randolph Bartlett. NH Article. The Kamikaze's Wallet. By Randolph Bartlett with Kan Sugahara. December 2010. The Japanese pilot sacrificed himself in a fiery crash; years later, an American naval officer’s son set out to identify the mystery flier.
- Frustration on The Enterprise
- Corsair Night Fighters vs. Japanese Bombers
- Night-Fighting Lessons Learned
- By Frank J. Martin
Once at sea, Harmer quickly discovered that his enthusiasm for night fighters was not shared by many officers outside VF(N)-101. In fact, the squadron was less than welcomed by the Enterprise's flight operations staff. At his first briefing, the air group commander, Commander Roscoe L. Newman, stated that night fighters, if used at all, would fly r...
Harmer's first night contact, much to his dismay, resulted in only a "probable." The 19 February encounter could have been a "kill," except that everything went wrong. For starters, Burgess brought Harmer's Corsair in above the bogey, a Betty medium bomber, and he overshot the target. Eventually, he made visual contact and fired a short burst into ...
More action followed, and as VF(N)-101 got increased exposure to Japanese tactics, its pilots honed their skills. A Betty bomber shadowing the fleet often preceded an enemy raid. Harmer learned that the safest and most efficient direction to approach the bomber was from directly astern. Because of the F4U's superior speed, overrunning the target wa...
In December 1942, I graduated in engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after having joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as an ensign. I was called to active duty on February 1, 1943, and assigned to electronic training in Boston, Massachusetts. After a month of Navy indoctrination at Harvard University, I attended a...
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Randolph Bartlett, the New York Times critic, reproached the director for his "lack of interest in dramatic verity" and for his "ineptitude" in providing plot motivation, thus justifying the heavy re-editing of the film for American audiences.2 In Germany, critic Axel Eggebrecht condemned Metropolis as a
Randolph Bartlett was born on March 14, 1881 in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer, known for Red Riders of Canada (1928), Love in the Desert (1929) and White Mice (1926). He was married to Rose ? and Frances Leonor Bermudez. He died on September 30, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.
When the film was first released in the United States in 1927, Randolph Bartlett, the New York Times critic, reproached the director for his "lack of interest in dramatic verity" and for his "ineptitude" in providing plot motivation, thus justifying the heavy re…
