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“Alright, who’s not dead?” - Admiral Kurita

Thanks you for your leadership,and service to your men!

How in the fu@k does something like this even happen if it were constructed properly it shouldn’t have been possible for this to happen shoddy construction is all I can say

What an interesting story about Newark not wanting to scrap the ship. Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes. Thanks for the video.

Named after my home state! That clipper now sure was pretty and those 12, 14”-50caliber main guns could do some damage.

The invasion would’ve been horrific

When you get so beyond pissed you sink an entire island:

That is actually Uss Northampton

Sadly, the Darter was sunk.

I have conned my guided missile destroyer in reverse for some distance, but never in a critical situation faced by Pittsburg. It was fun! You have to remember the engine and rudder orders are reversed too.

no stolen valor here but the vice presidential pick Tim Walz using stolen valor it's OK

Did the boarders capture the Enigma?

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area! Like the great city of Pittsburgh, the ship named after her is STRONG! 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛GO NAVY! 🫡🫡🫡⚓️⛵️⚓️🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

I have studied WWII naval history my whole life. I was appointed to Annapolis in 1975. I know almost every word that has been written about the whole war. I have never heard of this before.

And Darter and Dace were both lost.

Outstanding!🫡

Collin Route

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OUTSTANDING!!

The bow being "removed" with no casualties reminds me of lizards dropping their tails to preserve themselves. They then would grow new tails.

I was a Bosun during my career in the Navy. I was blessed to have served aboard the newest version of USS O’Bannon during my time. DD987 was obviously quite a bit different than the 4 stacker and this Fletcher class DD that came before us, but the lineage was never forgotten. Thank you Shipmates for all that you did for our country during the war efforts that required so much from so many including incredible efforts by our Allies !

A great ship in two wars. Always did her job/orders.

Crossing the T makes no sense in twentieth century naval warfare. You would be exposing your broadest profile of your ship to the enemy and all he has to do to aim his guns is fire directly in front of him while you, as the moving object, have to constantly adjust your aim at the enemy's narrowest profile.

The Fletchers are great boats! Tough little bastards.

The potato incident was later found to have been fabricated.

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Why don't aliens visit us "average human argument"

Why would he be denied the medal 🎖️?

5"/38s are mounts not turrets!

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Served 87 till 91

My dad James L Page was on the O'Bannon during Korea I was about 3 or 4 when mom and I took a train to Cal. for the recommissioning ceremony. Dad was a retread and a hard core " Tin Can " sailor. He had served on the Kirkpatrick from 43-45 and re upped in July of '50. His station was in CIC plot. I have a large full color picture of the 450 . I didn't even know it existed until after we lost dad in "91. Mom said that they had forgotten about it because they put it up because they were afraid I would take it to school and get it torn up.

Sad end to a proud lady.

Three japanese imperial navy heavy cruisers were sunk... Three others heavily damaged. Many hundreds of Japanese and aircraft gun crews were killed because the United States destroyer's industry or escorts rapid-fire 5 inch guns, peppered the superstructure and upper decks of these big ships, with so many shells so quickly.The japanese were dumbfounded. The US lost 2 destroyers, one destroyer escort.And one escort carrier... We lost more people than we lost during the battle of midway actually. Hats off to the pilots that day on the escort carriers and the cruise of the carriers who launched anything with wings no matter how much or how little ammunition or what bombs it had or didn't have on board. Pilots lined up onto the japanese ships and open their bombay doors or open torpedo doors which caused the japanese to think they were being attacked and caused them to take Evasive action, Even though the american pilots didn't even have anything on board their airplane to use as a weapon they were faking... Doing anything they could do to buy time for help to come and for the little escort carriers to try to get away. It was a team fight... A proud day for the United States navy, where the average sailor Had to make up for some bad decisions.By the american admirals that day who got greedy chasing big japanese carriers off in the far distance

Amazing.

It amazes me that if the yanks did something but when it was the Australian troops it was oh the allies Yanks have tunnel vision as if they are the only ones

"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." I guess his actions were too embarrassing??

My next door neighbor William " Bill" Ritter was on the Aaron Ward. His father had fougjt for the Austrians in World War 1 and he was raised in New Yotk City. He died in 2008. He use to go to his reunion I wanaa say every few years. He was awareded a Bronze Star with a V device for kicking the 40 mm and 5 inch gun shells over board as they were jamming up the deck. He was blown over board and spent 3 days in the water after one of the Kamikaze hit. They then sailed back to New York City all the way around the world. I remember they had a ship that fired rockets that got hit and went up like a roman candle. Now my mind is cloudy since he passed almost 20 years ago. His wife Irna an Austrian war refugee died in 2022. He was a great man, worked in Hermans sporting goods in Glen Oaks till he retired. Bill died from Alzheimers. But he never forgot those days. Thanks for making this.

My Uncle was a Pilot of Kingfishers in Funa Futi, Tuvalu. He and a wingman were on patrol searching for the crew of a reconnaissance bomber including WW I Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker. Late into the search they found a part of the crew. My Uncle was lower on fuel so it was decided that HE would return to base to get help ... ( NO RADIO ALLOWED) ... The Squadron's CO returned and the airman they could not fit in the ACFT were lashed to the Wing... the Skipper then water taxi'd nearly 10 nms to a PT boat. Coincidentally, All three of the pilots (including my Uncle) would retrain and transfer to CARRIER Squadrons... None of the three would live to see the end of the war.

Good history!

NEVER FORGET

Reno Nv. U.S.A.!!!

Makes for a terrible end to a great story but the battleships didn't sink anything. The three Japanese ships all withdrew. Yamashiro was torpedoed (again) while withdrawing, while Mogami collided with Nachi and was later sunk. Shigure escaped.

The Pearl Battleships settled the score….. but Halsey, the egomaniac, should have left the South Dakota’s and Iowa’s to deal with the Center Force instead of chasing Carriers with no planes. He knew the Center Force was just there. If those brave tin cans didn’t sacrifice themselves fighting like Archangel’s countless Marines would have been massacred. I’m no Admiral, but there was no reason you needed the battle wagons chasing the carriers. He had ~600 planes!!

The Penn was the reason my family moved from NYC to California. He served 34 years, several tours on the penn