To: R. Scott
"Those rapid fire 5s were pretty good too. "
Those would be the 5"54's. Our ship, commissioned at the end of WWII, had the 5"38's. Manual load twin barrel.
We had confirmed kills of hundreds of yards of tree line and a Water Buffalo :-}
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To: Vermonter
I did learn to hate some of those tree lines with a passion.
Was that one of the old Tin Cans with the trough latrines? The ones that the men would occasionally drop a piece of burning paper into so it could float down under a buddies butt?
508 posted on
04/23/2004 10:46:43 AM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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