[central_va]

Another Jap innovation was color coding the ammunition. Each ship had its own color if I understand it correctly when it explodes so they could range their own fire and fire simultaneously.

Yellow, green and pink rounds exploding.

[Coronal]

A seaman aboard the USS White Plains at Samar shouted “They’re shooting at us in Technicolor!”

[rlmorel]

I have long thought that, if I could see one movie created, and they promised not to screw it up totally with political correctness and Hollywood stupidity...I would want to see a movie created about the Battle of Leyte Gulf...complete with Halsey taking the bait, Oldendorf crossing the “T”, the charge of the Little Boys, the helpless jeep carriers running for their lives to try and reach a rain squall...there is so much real drama in that.

They could do great things now that were not possible in making the movie with CGI and such, but...Hollywood would probably bollux it up...put women as captains of ships and have open homosexuals aboard.

On second thought...DON’T make that movie!