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Ultimate Destroyer Battle
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Posted on 04/23/2013 11:23:16 AM PDT by varmintman
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04/23/2013 11:26:31 AM PDT
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BlueLancer
("Oh, man, that's a lot of Indians!" [LTC George A. Custer, 1876, near the Little Bighorn Valley])
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04/23/2013 11:35:23 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: varmintman
Fascinating and inspirational story! For anyone interested in destroyer action in WW2, I highly recommend “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” by James Hornfischer. It’s the account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the actions of a small but determined force of destroyers and destroyer escorts and their heroic actions in that decisive battle.
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04/23/2013 11:37:38 AM PDT
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D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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04/23/2013 11:38:39 AM PDT
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xone
To: BlueLancer
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To: varmintman
BTT. “Target-rich” environment. Too bad the targets were shooting back.
To: varmintman
Great story
Not being Navy, cannot remember what "Class" those destroyers were. As a kid I thought they were the coolest thing with all those 5" and 40mm guns.
Years later, those same ships were doing gunfire support in RVN with the same 5" guns. They were real gunships.
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04/23/2013 11:48:55 AM PDT
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DJ MacWoW
(My faith and politics cannot be separated)
To: varmintman
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posted on
04/23/2013 11:56:32 AM PDT
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Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: varmintman
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04/23/2013 11:58:48 AM PDT
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wbill
To: varmintman
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04/23/2013 12:00:14 PM PDT
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Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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04/23/2013 12:01:15 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: doorgunner69
Fletcher class more than likely.
To: varmintman
That was the first long article I made though. Well written about an exceptional battle.
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04/23/2013 12:08:59 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: doorgunner69
All three ships were, in fact, Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers, the newest in the USN at the time. Sumner and Moale both served until 1973—29 years in commission for both—and were scrapped shortly thereafter.
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04/23/2013 12:11:09 PM PDT
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Moose4
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To: varmintman
...a total of 12 5-inch .38 caliber guns
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04/23/2013 12:12:42 PM PDT
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Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: doorgunner69
By the way, two Sumner-class destroyers still exist today according to Wikipedia. The former USS Taussig was sold to Taiwan and is now a museum there, and USS Laffey—”The Ship That Would Not Die” thanks to its exploits off Okinawa—is a museum ship in Charleston, SC.
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04/23/2013 12:13:46 PM PDT
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Moose4
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04/23/2013 12:17:39 PM PDT
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MileHi
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