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Sumner class. The basic idea at Ormoc was that they were going to have 12 of those 5” guns firing at that port facility nearly from beyond effective range of Japanese guns or torpedoes using radar fire control with only the three knife-edge bows of those destroyers showing to anybody as targets.


22 posted on 04/23/2013 12:18:24 PM PDT by varmintman
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24 posted on 04/23/2013 12:39:04 PM PDT by varmintman
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