This is off the USS Iowa Memorial website.
Article was originally published in The Retired Officer Magazine.
Original title is:
The Ill-Fated USS WILLIAM D. PORTER
The title I am using is based on the article, and more appealing to Freepers...
1 posted on
08/27/2012 12:42:18 PM PDT by
topher
To: topher
Thank you for posting this.
2 posted on
08/27/2012 1:07:56 PM PDT by
Ingtar
(Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
To: topher
That was one unlucky ship, LOL!
3 posted on
08/27/2012 1:08:44 PM PDT by
GraceG
To: topher
4 posted on
08/27/2012 1:08:44 PM PDT by
MeganC
(The Cinemark theatre in Aurora, CO is a 'Gun Free Zone'. Spread the word.)
To: topher; Admin Moderator
And here I thought I was having a
bad day5 posted on
08/27/2012 1:18:58 PM PDT by
null and void
(Day 1316 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: topher
“Half a century ago, the “willie Dee,” as the William D. Porter was nicknamed, accidentally fired a live torpedo at the battleship IOWA during a practice exercise on November 14, 1943. As if this weren’t bad enough, the IOWA was carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and all of the country’s World War II military brass to the “big three” conferences in Cairo and Teheran.”
The world would have been much better had FDR sank to hell a bit earlier.
6 posted on
08/27/2012 1:47:29 PM PDT by
TheThirdRuffian
(I will never vote for Romney. Ever.)
To: topher
11 posted on
08/27/2012 3:21:08 PM PDT by
willyd
(Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
To: topher
13 posted on
08/27/2012 3:49:52 PM PDT by
visualops
(artlife.us)
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