526

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20061221-04918162-jijp-soci.view-001

Photo of PLAN missile frigate, comrade 526, in the East China Sea, taken by JMSDF P-3C, about 400 klicks NW of Okinawa Island, about noon on 21 December 2006.

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=116220&ran=245271

“For laser at Jefferson Lab, it’s ‘pick a wavelength'”

c December 18, 2006
By JON W. GLASS, The Virginian-Pilot

NEWPORT NEWS ? The search for a weapon that could knock down an incoming cruise missile drew the Navy. A possible cure for adult acne attracted a Harvard dermatologist. The potential for building lighter, stronger planes and spacecraft brought a NASA engineer.

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/061214/12/1y9yg.html

毛澤東專機
(明報) 12月 15日 星期五 05:05AM

Comrade Chairman Mao’s Il-14.

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/061214/12/1y9wg.html

WZ-11 test-fires AGMs.

USS Arizona

I was able to pass through Pearl earlier this year. Very moving, with the oil still seeping from the ‘Arizona’.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601916.html

“One Last Mission for Ship Sunk in Pearl Harbor Attack
Scientists in Md. Hope Arizona Stability Study Might Aid Others”

Thursday, December 7, 2006; Page A03
By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer

For 65 years, the wreck of the USS Arizona has been leaking oil from its grave at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, staining the water, visitors often say, as if it were the ship’s blood.

8 December Shouwa 16

In President Roosevelt’s speech to Congress the next day asking for a declaration of war, he called Dec. 7 “a date which will live in infamy.”

http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/%7EAyukawa/at/20050312b.htm
http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/%7EAyukawa/audio/declaration%20of%20war.mp3

Audio file and transcript of the speech.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41899

“Air Force seeks answers after dummy bomb accident in South Korea”

Pacific edition, Sunday, December 3, 2006
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea ? Air Force safety experts were seeking answers Friday on why a U.S. fighter plane released a dummy bomb Wednesday that caused no injuries but ripped a jagged path through a South Korean wire factory.