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Darwin
Feb 18, 2021 23:02:58 GMT
Post by mac on Feb 18, 2021 23:02:58 GMT
A couple of WW2 US related stories that might be of interest.
Cheers
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Darwin
Feb 18, 2021 23:31:19 GMT
Post by quincannon on Feb 18, 2021 23:31:19 GMT
Perry, as I am sure you know Mac, was one of the Asiatic Fleet's destroyers, along with Pope, Pillsbury, Edsall and several others who fought those early battles out you way. A few of them made it back to the States, but not many, and one, Stewart, was captured by the Japanese, refitted, and put into IJN service. We got her back at the end of the war, but she was the subject of something worthy of a Twilight Zone story, in that there were continued reports throughout the war, of a U S Navy four piper roaming around in Japanese controlled waters, that could never be explained during the war. We did not know that out attempts to blow her up failed when she was damaged in dry dock, and unable to move. We pulled out thinking she was a gonner.
I would give my eye teeth for a 1/200 model of Edsall. My dad's best friend went down on her. My dad mourned that man until the day he died.
Thanks for sharing the Perry story. It is indeed a game changer as far as history is concerned, and a caution to all of us in what we pursue most hereabouts. History is not static, it forever changes as we make even the smallest of discoveries.
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Darwin
Feb 19, 2021 20:13:07 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Feb 19, 2021 20:13:07 GMT
Is Edsall a class of destroyers? link
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Darwin
Feb 20, 2021 15:08:24 GMT
Post by quincannon on Feb 20, 2021 15:08:24 GMT
The Edsall I mentioned to Mac was a four pipe (four stacks) destroyer of the Clemson Class, like the 50 we sent to Britain under Lend Lease. It was lost with all hands in February 1942.
The Edsall in your link is indeed the class leader of a class of destroyer escorts and several of the first built members of the class were named to honor those Asiatic Fleet destroyers lost very early in the War in Java and thereabouts, like Edsall, Pope, and Pillsbury
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