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closespongebob said:
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now you're disappointing mespongebob said:
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she got attacked by 26 kamikazes
6 scored hits
6 scored hits
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Imagine the twilight lit by flames and explosions...beneath your feet the hot deck is wet with aviation fuel...and blood. Fires storm around you, accented by the thunder of explosions as the hail of shrapnel whistles by your face. Around you, you hear your shipmates cry for help-- some with screams, and some as a soft plea. You take all this in, but still you must keep fighting...another suicide plane is diving at you...
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Within a 52 minute time span, she was hit by 6 suicide planes and two 500 pound bombs. Most of her guns were knocked out, she was flooding, her steering was jammed, but she still managed to fight. One gunner was so determined that he literally sawed the wings off a kamikaze-- with bullets.
The battle however, was far from over.
Notice the dangling davits? Most of the life boats and life rafts were smashed. Fires and explosions continued to rage throughout the ship. She had a 40 foot hole ripped in her side, and the East China Sea was pouring in faster than the portable gasoline operated pumps could pump it out.
She settled lower into the East China Sea and the sharks waited...
The battle however, was far from over.
Notice the dangling davits? Most of the life boats and life rafts were smashed. Fires and explosions continued to rage throughout the ship. She had a 40 foot hole ripped in her side, and the East China Sea was pouring in faster than the portable gasoline operated pumps could pump it out.
She settled lower into the East China Sea and the sharks waited...
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Compare the height of the deck to the level of the ocean. After pumping all night long, the freeboard could be measured only in inches. Her decks were a mass of twisted steel, kamikaze debris, and flames. Her compartments were flooding.
And 42 men were either dead or dying.
Assisted by the U.S.S. SHANNON, the XXXXX XXXX was towed at a hellish 5 knots to the relative safety of Kerama Retto. There was a very real danger that more kamikazes would return, or that a stray Japanese submarine would happen by. And towing is a dangerous undertaking, especially when one ship is almost submerged.
But she survived.
And 42 men were either dead or dying.
Assisted by the U.S.S. SHANNON, the XXXXX XXXX was towed at a hellish 5 knots to the relative safety of Kerama Retto. There was a very real danger that more kamikazes would return, or that a stray Japanese submarine would happen by. And towing is a dangerous undertaking, especially when one ship is almost submerged.
But she survived.
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they both got sunk at bikini atoll in the '47 a-bomb testsCaliGirl said:
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force zCaliGirl said:
but no K for you
sunk in the south china sea along with the HMS Repulse
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happened during the campaign to take okinawa
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at sea obviously before the shit hit
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I meant that the Repulse went down with the Prince of Walesredguru said:
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sent into the south china sea w/o air cover
jap airplanes attacked
it wasn't pretty,both battleships went down in 3 hours
1941 Dec 10th - Loss of “Repulse” and “Prince of Wales”: the Sinking of Force Z - By the 8th, the battlecruiser and battleship have assembled at Singapore as Force Z under the command of Adm Sir Tom Phillips. That evening they sail with four destroyers to attack the Japanese landing on the northeast Malay coast. Fighter cover is requested but is not readily available.
In the evening of the 9th, Force Z is well up into the South China Sea. Japanese aircraft are spotted and Adm Phillips decides to return. Around midnight he receives a false report of landings at Kuantan, further down the Malay Peninsular and sets course for there. The ships have by now been reported by a submarine, and a naval aircraft strike force is despatched from Indochina. Attacks start around 11.00 on the 10th December, and in less than three hours “PRINCE OF WALES” and “REPULSE” have been hit by a number of torpedoes and sent to the bottom. Nearly a thousand men are lost, but 2,000 are picked up by the destroyers.
Following the Pearl Harbor attack, not one of the Allies' 10 battleships in the Pacific area remain in service.
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you should be ashamed of yourself seamanredguru said:
beaten by a girl
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