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2021-04-02 Science & Technology

USS Johnson from the Battle of Samar (1944) has been found

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Posted by badanov 2021-04-02 06:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Appropriate that it appears to be upright. Such a ship should always stand proud for what its crew did.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-02 07:08|| 2021-04-02 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Hollweird will never make a movie that can do justice to these men.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-02 07:14|| 2021-04-02 07:14|| Front Page Top

#3 My father served aboard the USS Kitkin Bay.

Posted by badanov 2021-04-02 07:39|| 2021-04-02 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 See Hornfischer, "Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors"

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2021-04-02 08:53|| 2021-04-02 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I recommend "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer if you want a blow by blow account.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-04-02 08:57|| 2021-04-02 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Best account out there.

badanov, bet that was exciting.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-02 11:00|| 2021-04-02 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Knew an Okie farmer, a friend's father, that was a 20mm gunner on of of the DDEs in the battle. You know it's not your day when, as he told it, the gun captain told him "Guns, it's been nice knowing you!" Past away a few years ago...

Posted by magpie 2021-04-02 11:15|| 2021-04-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

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