Gareth Michael Jones, The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975 by Brian Bertosa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviews 419 of the bombing of North Vietnam (the appendices state that the bombing was not effective, either as a military or policy tool.The narrative has many "I was there" anecdotes and is heavily illustrated.Those first-hand recollections keep the narrative flowing and prevent the book from being a monotone recitation of what were very dangerous missions.A few pilots were shot down and taken prisoner; their experiences as POWs are included and add to the disaster that was the Vietnam War.At the end of each chronological chapter is a stark reminder of the tragedy of war-a picture of each pilot killed during that period, together with a brief biography, remembrances of the deceased from family, friends, and crew, a listing of the deceased's medals, and also the location of the deceased's name on the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C.Jack's personal experience as a RF-8 Crusader photographer's mate is a valuable asset to the book; he served with an RF-8 squadron in the Cuban Missile Crisis and again with an RF-8 squadron during Vietnam.He, therefore, knows the aircraft he writes about.He writes well and keeps the reader's attention.After Vietnam, the RF-8's service days were numbered.It was gradually replaced in first-line USN service by the RF-4B Phantom.The last RF-8 in first-line service left for storage on 28 May 1982, though some RF-8s remained in reserve units until 1987.Many Crusader pilots, whether of the fighter or reconnaissance versions, remember the Crusader as their favourite airplane.Eyes of the Fleet Over Vietnam.RF-8 Crusader Combat Photo-Reconnaissance Missions, is a fitting tribute to an aircraft that served the USN and USMC well in dangerous airspace.It is recommended.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".