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To: ansel12

All 4 destroyers were hit, 3 were sunk. The one survivor had the torpedo go through its rudder and not explode or it too would have been sunk.


9 posted on 08/06/2025 10:24:28 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35

I saw that, I bet there was a lot of high fiving among the crews and officers on all the American ships, well, except that black culture hadn’t taken over America yet, so there was no high-fiving and other ghetto body antics.


10 posted on 08/06/2025 10:27:22 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: packrat35

But the 21” hole in the Shigure’s rudder wasn’t discovered until months later when it was in drydock. Captain Hara thought the Shigure was slow in answering the helm after the battle of Vela Gulf.


15 posted on 08/06/2025 12:08:27 PM PDT by Thud
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