SOMETHING BIG GOING DOWN TONIGHT (VANITY)

August 2, 2013 | Hostage

[Darksheare]

High Sticking isn’t an offense in THIS game!

[Darksheare]

Blast overpressure injuries to ears lungs and other squishy bits.
Not a pleasant way to die.

[Cyber Liberty]

Are those 16”? (Not a Navy guy or I’d know the ship and the answer.)

[Cyber Liberty]

I met a fellow in DC who served aboard the Missouri. He was about 90, we were at the FDR Memorial. He was there in Tokyo Harbor, and watched them sign the papers.

[Darksheare]

Yes.
By comparison, the dreadnought Arizona had 14” guns.

[Monkey Face]

Check your FReepmail!

[Monkey Face]

I could send you the War Years of the Late Igor’s personal history...it would give you a ringside seat into Navy life...;o]

[Cyber Liberty]

My Dad was in the Navy in WW2. Pacific. His experience with the AZ was sailing by her on the way out to sea, a reminder of why they were sailing out to sea. Everybody on deck at attention, in their whites.

He told me that being within a few miles of the 16” guns in salvo could make you crap your pants if you weren’t warned it was coming. And visibility was near zero after a few salvos, from the smoke.

[Darksheare]

I believe it.
Shells that big tore stuff up quite well.
ever got to watch the results of artillery after basic and AIT.
So sustained steel rain isn’t a spectacle I got to witness.
:-/

[NoCmpromiz]

I think the North Carolina is the same class as the Missouri.

Battleship Trivia follows (not to be confused with the game...)

BB-55 (North Carolina) was the lead ship of two battleships of the North Carolina Class of battleships... BB-56 (Washington) was the other member.

The North Carolina Class was followed by the South Dakota Class (BB-57 - BB-60)

Big Mo (BB-63 is the third member of the Iowa Class of battleship (BB-61 Iowa, BB-62 New Jersey, BB-53 Missouri, BB-64 Wisconsin, BB-65 Illinois and BB-66 Kentucky - last two never completed)

In case you were wondering after all this battleship trivia, BB-39 Arizona, the only battleship still commissioned in the US Navy, was the second of the Pennsylvania Class.

And a final pic...

[Cyber Liberty]

In case you were wondering after all this battleship trivia, BB-39 Arizona, the only battleship still commissioned in the US Navy, was the second of the Pennsylvania Class.

I had always predicted she would be the last, and will never be decommissioned.

[NoCmpromiz]

Are those 16”

Yes, the North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa Class battleships all carried 16" guns (that fired shells that weighed 2700 pounds)..

The unbuilt Montana Class was also planned to carry 16" guns, but twelve in four turrets instead of nine in three..

Another point of trivia, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the biggest battleship to sit at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, carried 18" guns and fired 3200 pound shells...

[GeronL]

bump

[Monkey Face]

Thanks, NC. I appreciate your research.

*hug*

[NoCmpromiz]

Probably not nearly as impressive as a volley of those shells though.

Probably a tad more accurate, but definitely not as impressive. When you were being shelled by a battleship, you knew it, or so I'm told..

My Uncle was in WW2 in the Pacific (actually I had two Uncles in the Pacific theater but one of them didn't make it back - he was killed on Luzon only three months before the war was over) and didn't like to talk about the war much, but he did talk about being in the landing party and waiting as the battleships lobbed their 2000 pound shells onto the island up ahead. He would say that he was glad they weren't headed his way because you could hear them coming overhead and if you heard them coming it was too late to do anything about it.. He could imagine how the Japanese felt having no place to go..

[NoCmpromiz]

Blast overpressure injuries to ears lungs and other squishy bits. Not a pleasant way to die.

But not always as fatal as electing to receive one of those 2000 pound shells... ;-)

[GeronL]

Yep. I imagine it was something like seeing dozens of B-52’s coming your way.

[Tax-chick]

Well, that makes sense then. You’re older than Anoreth ;-).

[Tax-chick]

My great-uncle was in the Philippines then, too. His unit was to have been in the second wave to attack the Japanese home islands. If he was Catholic, he’d have burned candles at a shrine to Harry Truman.

[Monkey Face]

At the risk of sounding silly, what is the brand of vacuum that you just purchased? I’m trying to sell one...

LOL!