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Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:54 pm
by MCVG-2 Sharpe
Just picked up the Book. More to follow.
I know the US' History channel did a story on them.
Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:24 pm
by Tbar
just the name of the book sounds interesting, I'll be looking forward to your report on same......
Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:34 pm
by MCVG-2 Sharpe
Ouote of the book so far....
?At close range the [uSS] Johnston?s entire chorus of weaponry came to bear on the small island [Kwajalein in the Marshal Island complex]. There was the sharp, ear ringing bark of the five-inchers, the rhythmic thumping of the twin mounted forty-millimeter machine guns, and the faster metallic chatter of the single barreled twenties. Men from the damage control party broke out rifles and made like Davy Crocket from the main deck. LT Welch took out his .45-caliber pistol, outstretched his arm, and enfiladed the distant enemy with the handgun.
From his perch the gun director, Lt Hagen spied a Japanese officer on the beach, weaving a saber, rallying his troops to the fight, and thought, Why not? He put the officer in the sights of his slewing device. The fire control computer clicked and whirled and zipped coordinates to the Johnston?s five main gun turrets. When Hagen closed the firing key, they all barked as one. The technology lived up to its brutal promise. The five-shell salvo obliterated the man.
?Mr Hagen, that was very good shooting called Captain Evans {CO of the USS Johnston} from the bridge. ?But in the future, try not to waste so much ammunition on one individual?.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Page 56
Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:51 am
by MCVG-2 Bostimax
I wish there was a naval sim out there that would allow for the Controll of a Fletcher class Destroyer-I loved the Book and the Documentary
Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:12 pm
by Argon
I think I have to pick up that book.
I have a friend who served on a Destroyer in WWII and the matter of fact way he tells his stories (the one's I can get out of him) is scary. He is almost completly deaf now from the guns.These guys had something that seems to lost on most of us now.
Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:51 am
by Shahzad
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