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To: ansel12

BTW thats Houston’s no 3 turret in the picture, which had recently been disbled by a bomb hit, killing 40 of her crew and hobbling her for the upcoming Java Sea battle. Houston would have to fight one arm tied behind her back untill she was lost.


45 posted on 06/04/2023 8:32:59 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Here is the article with the photo.

The Story Behind the Photo
Despite the loss of her Number 3 turret in the Java Sea on 4 February, the heavy cruiser Houston and her men fought on. Within a month of this photo, she was sunk at the Battle of Sunda Strait, and most of the men shown were either dead or prisoners of war.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/december/story-behind-photo


51 posted on 06/04/2023 9:03:34 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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