Wow that is incredible, talk about frayed nerves. My dad was in the Navy as well, he told me when those guns went off it was louder than anything you can imagine, just shook you to your core. My greatest fear though would have been thrown in the water from a sinking ship at night and having to deal with sharks in the dark. Oh maaaaaaan, I would go out of my mind.
With sincere reverence for your fallen heroes of 1941, November 3, 2020 may come to be viewed as America’s new Day of Infamy. The Japanese were an external enemy that temporarily crippled the US Pacific Fleet and posed no threat to America as a nation. But they were an identifiable enemy that was defeated through direct confrontation and resolve
The domestic enemies that are on the brink of stealing this election are far more insidious, and have a real opportunity to destroy the America of the Founders. It will be far more difficult for Patriots to displace the leftist cabal that has conspired against your country. They control the media, tech, education, government budgets, law enforcement, the national security apparatus, and will soon control the borders and the military. I don’t see anyway for America to escape this fate except through massive bloodshed. “Live Free or Die” may soon be replaced with “Submit or Die”. These people are that evil.
I am with you on that.
It is interesting that sharks were a far bigger problem in the South Pacific and the Guadalcanal Campaign than was let on.
Nothing could be done about it. Men were going to go into the water. And the sharks would be there. And nothing could be done. Later in the war, they tried shark repellent, but it was useless.
There is a scene during the loss of the carrier USS Wasp, where the predations of the sharks were going on in full view of the ships trying to rescue the survivors, until “darkness brought down a curtain on the horrible scene”.
It was considered bad form to talk about sharks, and when someone would bring them up, everyone else would tell them abruptly to shut the hell up. The Navy didn’t address it, because there was nothing to be done.
There was apparently a great big elephant in the room, and by common agreement between sailors and leadership, everyone just pretended that elephant wasn’t there.
Because nothing could be done about it.