Posted on 07/30/2014 3:39:01 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A rare occurrence recently in the Pacific Ocean as more than 40 international naval ships joined together for a single photo shoot.
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These threads about old iron remind me that it has been a year since Archy has posted any of his most educational additions.
Bummer, that.
Wow that WWII photo is a dandy.
Yes, quantity has a quality all its own. Something to think about as we enter the dawn of the Chinese Century.
That’s a great photo, thank you for posting. I went there from Guam on a 95’ patrol boat while in the USCG. It was beautiful and I knew the history of it as a stop over for our troops and I could only imagine what it looked like but this photo brings it home. The magnitude and organization to get just some of those ships underway is a calculated high risk game.
Wonder what became of him...
Yes, I wonder.
The Seabees even built an R and R center on land that could handle thousands of men at a time while their ships were at anchor. Because of that forward base and not having fleets return to Pearl for port facilities, we greatly sped up the tempo of operations against the Japanese. Something else they didn’t anticipate.
Shortly after WWI had ended a ship of the US merchant marine sailing near the coast of Japan spotted a ship on its primitive radar.
The ship’s captain then radioed the unidentified ship “immediately identify yourself or we will open fire”.
The return message was “This is the USS Missouri fire when ready”
I believe he also said that once landing on American soil they would face a man with a rifle behind every tree.
correction: WWII
Not that the Germans were any less foolish. The German leaders knew what we were capable of. In 1939 the US economy was more than twice the size of the German ecomony and those resources would be added to the production of the UK and Canada. They fooled themselves with the delusion that we were rich and soft and racial "mongrels." So, they declared war on us!
It reminds me of the quote from Webster in Band of Brothers:
David Webster: [at a passing column of German prisoners] Hey, you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards! That's right! Say hello to Ford, and General effin' Motors! You stupid fascist pigs! Look at you! You have horses! What were you thinking? Dragging our a$$es half way around the world, interrupting our lives... For what, you ignorant, servile scum! What the f@#$ are we doing here?
Yamamoto also said that if the Japanese invaded the US there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
How fitting, the U. S. S. Ronald Reagan leading the way.
Very cool!
There must be a garbage ship in the Navy they can name the U. S. S. Obama.
By 1945 we had more than 12 million men and women under arms and almost all that would have been directed at Japan after Germany's surrender had the bombs not ended the war. And they never even put soldiers on the ground in Hawaii, much less the US mainland. All Yamamoto's fears were right.
Spoken like a true submariner!
From 1983-1984 I sailed on the Hospital Ship Mercy-except then it was the Worth a San Clemente class tanker under charter to BP.
I’d be happier knowing the U.S. didn’t participate in this little cluster of love.
WWII?
I know ...sad. He was more treadhead than blue water navy...... But he would have something really cool to share indeed.....:o)
Hope yer well....stay safe !
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