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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Back in the old battleship days ... Those things had to be sights to behold -- belching smoke, churning the water, riveted hulls with iron cannons ...

Sheer brute power on the high seas.

8 posted on 11/11/2018 8:06:10 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack
Wife and I toured the Battleship Missouri at Pearl Harbor some years ago. It was a puzzling combination of 1930s/1940s tech plus modern missile capability.
The Missouri was one of the BBs that underwent upgrading courtesy the Gipper...
9 posted on 11/11/2018 8:10:59 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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The Texas is a sight to behold, even though she is moored.


11 posted on 11/11/2018 8:27:55 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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