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WWII Photographs...Has anyone seen these before?
11/15/2010
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Posted on 11/15/2010 8:08:42 PM PST by rlmorel
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:08:46 PM PST
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rlmorel
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:11:58 PM PST
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LikeLight
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:12:16 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
To: rlmorel
WOW !
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:12:39 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: rlmorel
Thank you for sharing. My guess would be the surrender was of an outlying island or territory or perhaps part of a Japanese fleet.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:14:24 PM PST
by
Franklin Wright
(I'd rather be a Tea Bag than a "D" Bag)
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:14:44 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
To: rlmorel
A quick Google search shows that the ship in the background was the USS Capps, a Fletcher class destroyer that went in service in 1943.
To: Franklin Wright
That is what just occurred to me...maybe China or something.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:15:23 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(When charity is mandatory, it becomes servitude.)
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Some one missed the Tail hook arresting wire.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:17:01 PM PST
by
Bringbackthedraft
(The candidate they smear and ridicule the most is the one they fear the most.)
To: rlmorel
I’d consider Googling images of the surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri to see if that last picture is from the same event.
It could be...
I’d love to know the stories behind the photos.
DD550 is the USS Capps - link to her history is here:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/550.htm
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:17:26 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:18:01 PM PST
by
txroadkill
(Ding Dong the Witch is gone!)
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Some one missed the Tail hook arresting wire. Looks like Pacific Theater, with a Jeep carrier in the photo. Task Force Taffey???
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:18:26 PM PST
by
Bringbackthedraft
(The candidate they smear and ridicule the most is the one they fear the most.)
To: rlmorel
I will add WOW! My Father was in the Pacific Theater and I thought I had seen almost of the photos.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:21:25 PM PST
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Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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My uncle was on one of those carriers. A flaming aircraft on deck like that was a threat to turn the whole ship into a torch, especially if they had bombs and refuelling lines on deck. Must have been very scary for them. Brave, brave men.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:22:18 PM PST
by
FlyVet
To: Bringbackthedraft
Any recognize the downward pointing arrowhead insignia on the vertical stabilizer of the Wildcats?
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:22:31 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(When charity is mandatory, it becomes servitude.)
To: Bringbackthedraft
LOL! Of course, I wasn’t thinking...I couldn’t figure out the dynamics of that, but of course it is looking towards the BOW...:)
Funny how I just didn’t get that originally...
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:24:16 PM PST
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rlmorel
(When charity is mandatory, it becomes servitude.)
To: Bringbackthedraft
I take it there is no way to survive a fireball like that? Do you know anything about that sort of crash?
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Hard to imagine how someone could survive that.
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posted on
11/15/2010 8:25:42 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(When charity is mandatory, it becomes servitude.)
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I know. I just hate the thought of someone being in the cockpit in a crash like that.
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