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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:36:15 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:38:09 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:40:25 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:41:25 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:42:44 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:45:38 AM EST
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Learned to reload on my Uncles 57 8 3/8" .41 Magnum in 84'. Picked up my own 6" 57 few months later.
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:46:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Japs were surprised that we had Battleships there. Normal mission for Cruisers but Japs sank or damaged them. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Washington was armed with nine 16-inch guns. Using radar, the U.S. ship engaged the enemy just after midnight. The South Dakota was damaged, but the Washington sank a destroyer and fatally hit the Kirishima, which was scuttled by her crew a few hours later. The action was variously called the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and the Third Battle of Savo Island. The Japanese did not seriously threaten Guadalcanal again. Japs were surprised that we had Battleships there. Normal mission for Cruisers but Japs sank or damaged them. Fun fact: the first Pacific Command designation was Commander In Chief US Fleet, but for some reason, CINCUS didn't quite sound right... so it was changed to Commander In Chief PACific After Chet Nimitz was named CINCPAC, he knew we would play for time in the Pacific Theater until our shipyards could build the forces to give us offensive capabilities. Surface actions in 1942 are the most interesting of the War, nighttime heavy gunnery fire observed by Marines on Tenaru Ridge like a play unfolding with unknown ending. Japanese torpedo's were 20 knots faster, longer range, and they knew how to employ them. Their night gunnery talent and navigation charts beat us time and again. "Tiger" Tanaka ran The Slot to deliver troops and supplies to the Canal confounding our commanders. Had the IJN deduced the Long Game sooner, we could not have prevailed. |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:46:35 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:46:50 AM EST
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"We have to discuss your housework, its not up to my standards..."
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:47:21 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:47:49 AM EST
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Quote History"I take my Loon with me everywhere..." 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:48:12 AM EST
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Quote HistoryGood man! He no queer! |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:49:42 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:50:14 AM EST
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Winchester Model 57
 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:50:37 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Learned to reload on my Uncles 57 8 3/8" .41 Magnum in 84'. Picked up my own 6" 57 few months later. https://www.swatmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Early-Smith-Wesson-Model-57.jpg  |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:51:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryFantasy Island Relic of near- Unobtanium |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:51:46 AM EST
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Quote HistoryMuch Win chester |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:52:32 AM EST
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Time for student discipline
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:52:54 AM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:53:23 AM EST
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Rare pic of the secure Arfcom server room
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:53:49 AM EST
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Quote HistorySoDak Big Mac! |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 11:54:04 AM EST
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South Dakota full broadside (BBs named after states, Cruisers after Cities)
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:01:24 PM EST
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USS Anizo CVE-57 (Carriers named after battles)
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:05:22 PM EST
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Sukhoi Su-57
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:06:27 PM EST
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Martin B-57B Canberra
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:08:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryA literal Handful of US Battleships, tenacious pilots, inflexible Marines and bold commanders held off vastly superior forces in the critical months of 1942 Many Navy ships were sunk, heavily damaged or disabled for months. Two Admirals were killed in the same night. Japanese Captains soon discovered this was not the enemy they had been led to believe would fold under any pressure. For the first time, the unexpected Great Weakness of Japanese Naval Command emerged: when presented with chance after chance to press home a tactical advantage to ultimate Victory, IJN commanders would not give the order at the right time. No better expression of this flaw is found than The Battle Off Samar. When the mighty Yamato heavy gunnery task group debouched San Bernardino Strait, nothing lay between them and the Leyte Gulf Beachhead save a few baby flattops and some thin-skinned Tin Cans. As a result of our ferocious attacks, they managed to convince themselves they had encountered our Main Body... St. Lo and Gambier Bay under attack by 6", 8", 12", 14", 15" and 18.1" rifles...    |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:16:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: South Dakota full broadside (BBs named after states, Cruisers after Cities) https://tvd.im/uploads/posts/2021/05/uss-south-dakota-bb-57_4.jpg Great rendering Some Heavy Cruisers after State Capitol cities, sometimes the largest city in a state they had to be good as their opposite numbers in the IJN were stellar 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:17:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryThat is the Spirit Animal of the Gen 5 fighters in Maverick |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:18:14 PM EST
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Heinkel He 57
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:18:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Martin B-57B Canberra https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Canberra-Bomber-Vietnam.png Built a surprising number of those. The H-Bomb ship used in Thunderball IIRC |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:19:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryThose sly boots! |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:20:01 PM EST
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Yorktown, sunk "twice" at Midway, no small feat
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:20:45 PM EST
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Damn fine special effects in Tora
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:22:01 PM EST
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The Widowmaker
first design-built radar equipped night stalker Quad 50 are lethal 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:23:53 PM EST
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The only photo of Mikuma at Midway after our SBD's mopped her up
Mogami Class Heavy Cruiser, the 5th Japanese Capitol Ship sunk there and the one nobody remembers 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:27:20 PM EST
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B-17 high level bombing at Midway
4 June 1942, the Kitchen Sink Attack our Dive Bombers appearing over undefended flight decks (while the CAP was at wavetop level chasing then decimating our low flying torpedo planes) littered with bombs, aircraft, torpedo's and fuel carts were a direct result of 12 previous air attacks by everything the US had to put in the air... including Vindicators, aircraft so slow Marines renamed them Wind Indicators  
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:29:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Evening/Morning Kitteh Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The lack of feline enthusiasm is concerning Evening/Morning Kitteh CD! |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:32:41 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Widowmaker first design-built radar equipped night stalker Quad 50 are lethal https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-qkBvrch/0/4f992191/X3/i-qkBvrch-X3.jpg P-61 used the same engines as the F4U, F6F, P-47, B-26 and DC-4. P&W R2800 which we made 125,000 or so from 1937-1960. |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:34:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: B-17 high level bombing at Midway 4 June 1942, the Kitchen Sink Attack our Dive Bombers appearing over undefended flight decks (while the CAP was at wavetop level chasing then decimating our low flying torpedo planes) littered with bombs, aircraft, torpedo's and fuel carts were a direct result of 12 previous air attacks by everything the US had to put in the air... including Vindicators, aircraft so slow Marines renamed them Wind Indicators https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-ZDPpKNZ/0/2a364954/O/i-ZDPpKNZ.jpghttps://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-FH4225P/0/b9b01e3c/O/i-FH4225P.jpg Including a flight of Martin B-26A Marauders and first combat action of the Helldivers which would replace the SBDs. |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:38:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CD! Get your catnap in? 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:39:04 PM EST
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:40:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The only photo of Mikuma at Midway after our SBD's mopped her up Mogami Class Heavy Cruiser, the 5th Japanese Capitol Ship sunk there and the one nobody remembers https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-pFRhwLP/0/31f36716/X2/i-pFRhwLP-X2.jpg 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:45:46 PM EST
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B-25
B-17 Wildcat Seagull Vindicator Brewster Buffalo Avenger Dauntless Devastator Catalina proved useless, the Japanese rightly concluding they could defend against any US attack that morning. But Midway put up such stiff resistance, Nagumo was forced to send in another carrier strike to soften up the target for his Invasion Forces near the very moment the Heavy Cruiser Tone's tardy float plane encountered US ships steaming 170 miles northeast of the islands. Yet "Each sailor was somehow imbued with the escapable sense that his own individual actions might affect the outcome of the War..." There would be no quarter today. Without repeated futile attacks from US Aircrews, the moment would not have emerged when some 30 SBD's forever changed the Balance of Power in the Pacific in 6 minutes   |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:46:18 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CD! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The lack of feline enthusiasm is concerning Evening/Morning Kitteh CD! Ravekitteh! How was concert? |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:47:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: P-61 used the same engines as the F4U, F6F, P-47, B-26 and DC-4. P&W R2800 which we made 125,000 or so from 1937-1960. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Widowmaker first design-built radar equipped night stalker Quad 50 are lethal https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-qkBvrch/0/4f992191/X3/i-qkBvrch-X3.jpg P-61 used the same engines as the F4U, F6F, P-47, B-26 and DC-4. P&W R2800 which we made 125,000 or so from 1937-1960. Powerplants R US! Babcock & Wilcox boilers kicked the behind back of the Emperor where it belonged |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:48:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Including a flight of Martin B-26A Marauders and first combat action of the Helldivers which would replace the SBDs. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: B-17 high level bombing at Midway 4 June 1942, the Kitchen Sink Attack our Dive Bombers appearing over undefended flight decks (while the CAP was at wavetop level chasing then decimating our low flying torpedo planes) littered with bombs, aircraft, torpedo's and fuel carts were a direct result of 12 previous air attacks by everything the US had to put in the air... including Vindicators, aircraft so slow Marines renamed them Wind Indicators https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-ZDPpKNZ/0/2a364954/O/i-ZDPpKNZ.jpghttps://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-FH4225P/0/b9b01e3c/O/i-FH4225P.jpg Including a flight of Martin B-26A Marauders and first combat action of the Helldivers which would replace the SBDs. The Suzy Q sought refuge over the Flagship that morning...
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:49:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryIts a pity there aren't more detailed photos of many ships now in Davy Jones Locker 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:50:53 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: CD! Get your catnap in? https://media.tenor.com/tGR-t_9_rE0AAAAC/battleship-shooting.gif Very little. It's been a long but very fun weekend. |
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:50:58 PM EST
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Japanese Naval Architects did nothing by accident, the pre-Rader era made height an obvious advantage
 
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Posted: 5/14/2023 12:51:24 PM EST
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Ju-52 mit Fallschirmjägers!
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