Posted on 05/14/2016 7:12:53 AM PDT by artichokegrower
"This is incredible actual footage during the 80-minute attack on the USS Laffey. About the best naval footage ever shot by a Navy cameraman. The camera was in the gun turret under attack. The USS Laffey, "the ship that would not die", was hit by 6 Kamikazes and 4 bombs, but remained afloat after an 80 minute battle that included 22 Kamikaze attacks"
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Link to video:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4zkp7hvrgbcd7gd/D-qPNsG9ym?preview=Laffey+Enhanced+vo+3.wmv
I’d like to view it but I am not about to reinstall Adobe Flash Player on my system. I also get security certificate warnings from the link.
I dumped Flash a few months ago.
My system performance was noticeably improved.
The film was very good. I remember news of the kamikaze attacks. My fathers generation fought the fight.
Thank you!
My dad’s introduction to the Japanese was when a Kamikazi struck the top of the the Maryland’s #3 main gun turret off Okinawa.
He was manning an anti-aircraft gun emplacement at the base of that turret at the time.
My uncle was in Kamikaze school when the war ended. It saved him. They were not country bumpkins. They were the university elites.
Kamikaze IP: Listen carefully I can only show this once.
Great film. Will send to friends on Memorial Day.
Later
Yes. The Japanese earned my dad’s respect. Both as motivated and steadfast soldiers, and later as a proud people who lost the war, but won the peace (often a far more difficult proposition than merely making the gravel bounce!).
He drew a stark contrast between the Kamikaze, who he regarded as brave an honorable men giving their all to protect their homeland from armed enemy combatants, and cowardly muslim suicide bombers blowing up pizzerias full of innocent children.
Please let you uncle know that at least one Marine who was on the receiving end of a Kamikaze attack would have cheerfully bought him a beer. Or Sake.
The USS Laffey now resides at Patriots Point in Charleston Harbor, If your down this way drop on in, you’ll be impressed
We couldn’t repeat a WW2 effort, that’s clear.
Two USS Block Island’s also.
CVE-24 and CVE-106.
My uncle Jack served on both of them.
First time the US Navy recycled an entire crew together.
Seems we named new ships in the class after the ones the enemy sank—confused them.
http://www.ussblockisland.org/Beta/Welcome.html
Those guys fought that TERRIFYING battle so Deviants could use the rest room of their choice...so that Sodomites could be celebrated...Damn good thing that they didn’t know what was coming.
Flash was the source of a lot of security warnings on my box till I found something else to use.
“Freedom’s Forge” is a fantastic book about what it took to mobilize industry to produce all the materiel and armaments to win. The scale and speed of that effort are truly astonishing.
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