Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
No, just NWC. Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try.
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Ship Photo of the Day
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No, just NWC. Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try.
Well, I suppose no one would have known, but why would we have kept such an event secret? We all thought it was funny, including the lead, and more importantly, he was the type of aviator who believed that carrier aviation was safer when we all shared our "mistakes made" and "lessons learned". Nobody was ever in danger and his skin was just as thick as anybody else's.
About the only book out there is Lisle Rose's The Ship That Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the War. My copy was published on 1995 by the Naval Institute Press.
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Right, this one. Thanks. While included some insights, the book is extremely out of professional naval views. Yes the Hornet CV-8 was for all considerations beyond the battle readiness at Midway but it seems to be the outcome of two COs aboard and very strange CAG's behavior. Need to know why the things weren't improved further, this way of research.
If a destroyer is a "tin can", what does that make a destroyer escort? USS Oberrender (DE-344) which my uncle (92 and still kickin') served on was a John C Butler class named after Lieutenant Commander Thomas Olin Oberrender Jr. who was killed along with the 5 Sullivan brothers aboard USS Juneau mentioned above. The ship had its share of bad luck: first severely damaged on 10 November 1944 when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood accidentally blew up and then damaged beyond repair by a kamikaze attack on 9 May 1945.
Amazing that these class of ships were able to charge the battleships and cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Samar - and some actually survived.
“ In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in those two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar ”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII, Leyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar
Amazing that these class of ships were able to charge the battleships and cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Samar - and some actually survived.
“ In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in those two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar ”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII, Leyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar
Amazing that these class of ships were able to charge the battleships and cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Samar - and some actually survived.
“ In no engagement of its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in those two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar ”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII, Leyte
Yep. Training, tactics, and balls. It matters. That's why I know an LCS (or baby Hornet, etc, in the context of this board) will probably do better than expected up against Country Red.
2016 was a year of upsets so on this last day of the year so we are reaching back for the biggest upset in US Navy history - before photography so it has to be a painting -
Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis.
The Battle of Flamborough Head
23 September 1779
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(1765)
Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis.
The Battle of Flamborough Head
23 September 1779
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(1765)
@Randy Daytona mentioned the Mount Hood above. I spent some time on her rename, AE-29. We kept this image framed up by the bridge as a reminder of just what we were hauling around.
New Year's Day. The world's oldest commissioned vessel: USS Constitution.
And one of its earliest photographs - from 1886.
And one of its earliest photographs - from 1886.
The oldest commissioned warship still afloat, the HMS Victory is older but in permanent dry dock.
Care to guess the US Navy's second oldest ship? She is also a museum.
The oldest commissioned warship still afloat, the HMS Victory is older but in permanent dry dock.
Care to guess the US Navy's second oldest ship? She is also a museum.
Good catch. I actually have a painting of HMS Victory at Trafalgar in my home office.
As for #2 being a museum, if it is the ship I am thinking about, it would be quite difficult to visit.
Battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck. The mere threat of this monster led to the decision to scatter convoy PQ-17 resulting in the loss of most of that entire convoy. Her 8 x 15" rifles were throwing shells that weighed 1764 lbs - for perspective, the Iowas 9 x 16" main guns launched shells approaching 2,700 lbs.
The Germans sure could build pretty ships. Good thing for us they decided to waste the sailors, steel, and time on building capital ships vice more U-boats.Battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck. The mere threat of this monster led to the decision to scatter convoy PQ-17 resulting in the loss of most of that entire convoy. For perspective, her 8 x 15" rifles were throwing shells that weighed 1764 lbs - for perspective, the Iowas 9 x 16" main guns launched shells approaching 2,700 lbs.
An extra inch DOES matter. At least that what she said…
