[Rockpile]

I’m interested in the Pacific War. Had my dad’s Ike jacket with the 5th Air Force patch when I was in high school. Am reading Neptune’s Inferno right now about the Guadalcanal naval campaign. I used to work with two former Marines who were on Guadalcanal and one guy who was a sailor on the Dent. They had a some interesting stories.

[bus man]

I imagine that your Marine coworkers would be less than thrilled about the Haruna, as that's the ship that (along with the Kongo) shelled Henderson Field so effectively. It was one of the very few times during the entire war that any of the IJN battleships performed any sort of useful service for their country.

(Sorry for taking this thread off-track, everyone.)