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Post by quincannon on Dec 14, 2023 15:21:11 GMT
Concur. Correct decision. Ten Go also featured several highly capable IJN destroyers whose torpedoes were very deadly. Using battleships, even that many, is a risk not worth taking.
When I was very young my dad worked at Main Navy in DC. Outside the main entrance they had one of those 24" Japanese torpedoes that had been captured. It was a beast, much larger than anything we had. That's all gone now, the building anyway, but the torpedo is at the Navy Museum at the Washington Navy Yard. If you are an NCIS fan every once and awhile you see it in that show.
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Post by Elwood on Apr 26, 2024 16:13:25 GMT
Recently received correspondence/copy of documents etc. re: my great uncle who died in a plane crash in New Guinea in '45. I posted a page or two earlier about him, a P-38 pilot for the Army. Killed when his plane was returning him from leave in Australia crashed in bad weather. I had found a legit researcher who tracked down the casualty reports and his individual flight records. Interesting stuff. They found the transport plane, a C-47. All 12 occupants were killed, all army air corp. He, my uncle, was first buried in New Guinea then reburied in the Philippines in late '45. Around early '48, the army got around to asking his mother, my great-grandmother, who lived in Arlington, Texas, if she wanted his remains moved. In July of '48, his remains were shipped to Texas and buried there in a cemetery in Arlington. Included in the paperwork I received were copies of a couple of letters she had written the army in the matter. Powerful stuff, asking for the remains of her only son. (she had two daughters). Imagining what she went thru reminded me of a story I once heard. A somewhat humorous ending but makes you think what mothers and fathers went thru when their children go off to war.
Seems a Marine general was involved with bond raising activities during WWII. Part of his job was to meet with mothers of servicemen. Gold star mothers and those who had sons still serving. While meeting with one group, he was approached by a mother who asked a favor of him. She had a son serving with the Marines in the Pacific. He had not written her in a couple of months. She did not know exactly where he was but she gave him all the info she could. The next day the general began to track him down. The young marine was involved in an island campaign in the Pacific. Forget the island or even if it was mentioned in the story. But word got to him to head to the rear immediately and report to the officer in charge. He showed up, reported to a Colonel. He was provided a makeshift desk and chair made with supply crates and was handed paper and pen. The Col. told him, "Sit down and write your mother a letter. That's an order."
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Post by quincannon on Apr 26, 2024 21:09:10 GMT
One should always write their mother Mister E. They worry. The Colonel in this case was following the age old standing operational procedure. When a general officer says Merry Christmas, the subordinate is obligated to start whistling Jingle Bells.
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