[Colonel_Flagg]

I’ve “read up” on the battle and had first hand accounts of it from my FIL, who spent two days wounded in the water after being sunk by a Japanese battleship.

Anyhow, it may have been true in the case of the Johnston but was most assuredly not true in his case.

[laplata]

Anyhow, it may have been true in the case of the Johnston but was most assuredly not true in his case.

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Thanks for that admission.

[laplata]

Glad your FIL made it. I lost an uncle to a kamikaze attack off Okinawa. He was on a destroyer pulling picket duty.