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I feel the looooooooooveee here... :D
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Originally Posted by mireland
How many of those CVN things you got these days? Let me guess... Shed loads.. :D :t Going for like 15 or so at the last count?
10 of them hero, I've seen 2, the Lincoln and the Washington, freaking big boats
Nimitz class carrier
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Originally Posted by BadDriver
Keep it up Hero and you can ride shotgun for werz. :mad:
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And Murph, you keep outta this or you can ride bee-yatch. :D
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I don't really Like Boatz ........ They wobble about too much when it gets windy N' stuff........ Blech :(
Check this out. Pretty good. :D
http://www.madskies.com/127/carrier-car-launch/
It takes quite nasty conditions for a carrier to ride rough. Ya could almost play billiards or pinball on one. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by j.m@talk
The thing I rode for 4 years would toss about if you spit over the side. :r
BD, were you on a tin can?
Did ya do the Torpedo Squadron 8 - Survivor at Miday link?
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-8c.htm
Ensign Gay was rear seat in a Devastator during the Torpedo attack against the Jap Carriers. The Jap CAP splashed the entire squadron and Gay was just floating there, grandstanding as the SBD's flamed Soryu, Kaga and Akagi. Quite a story.
http://www.valorstudios.com/Images/T...8/torpedo8.jpg CLICK IMAGE
fourth day of June, 1942 on the deck of the carrier, Hornet (CV-8). This is the carrier made famous less than two months prior, when B-25s led by Jimmy Doolittle were launched from her deck in the daring, first surprise bombing raid on Japan. The atmosphere is tense, as the Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers of Torpedo Squadron Eight are poised for takeoff. The pilots' orders are to attack the entire might of the Japanese fleet off Midway Island. Squadron leader, LCdr John C. Waldron and his aircrews are well aware that their chances of survival from this fateful mission are minimal at best. At the time of its introduction in 1937, the Devastator was in the technological forefront of aircraft design. However, five short years later, it was hopelessly obsolete against a powerful, formidable enemy. Flying low and slow against the Japanese armada, all fifteen torpedo bombers were shot out of the sky with only one survivor, Ensign George Gay. However, this action forced the defending Zero fighters down to wave-top level and exhausted much of their fuel, leaving their carriers virtually unprotected. Soon after, SBD Dauntless dive bombers hit and sank three carriers, the pride of the Japanese fleet (the Akagi, the Kaga, the Soryu, and the next day, the Hiryu.)
BD was on RD's. RD-212Quote:
Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
Yeah, an FFG. Guided missile frigate.Quote:
Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
It got quite exciting when we hit heay seas. Here are a few of the specs on it.
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: 2 Foster Wheeler 1,200 psi boilers, 1 GE steam turbine, 1 shaft, 35,000 total horsepower
Propellers: one
Length: 414.4 feet (126.3 meters)
Beam: 45 feet (13.5 meters)
Draft: 26 feet (7.9 meters)
Displacement: 3,425 tons
Speed: 27 knots
Aircraft: one SH-2F (LAMPS 1)
Armament: one Mk 22 Mod. 0 guided missile launcher for 16 Standard SM-1 MR, one Mk 30 5-inch/12.7cm gun, MK 32 ASW torpedo tubes (two triple mounts), one Mk 16 ASROC missile launcher
Crew: 17 Officers, 219 Enlisted
Quite a small ship but I liked it. I knew every mofo onboard and I knew who I could trust and who was a rat fink. FNG's were checked out for months before they were trusted. I never got busted on her and I smoked daily. :D I came close a few times, but I walked. Finks usually had an aversion to coming topside at night. ;)
I would only take one number with me on watch and if things went wrong I would just flip it up in the air, the ship would slide right out from under it. :D
Ahhh, the 70's and early 80's was a great time to be a sailor. Then came the whizz quiz. :mad:
A nice overhead shot of "me boat" making tracks. I think she was bein pushed in this pic. 27 was cruising speed but she had some reserve. I think we were clocked at 31 once, maybe it was only 30.
http://navysite.de/ffg/ffg4_5.jpg
Yup, what used to be a tin can. Sadly, I never got to a ship. Bad knee, bounced me out of boot before grad. I was pissed. Had security clearance and was E3 by 2nd week of boot. Dumbacres How far can ya run on a ship anywho?
Not very far. There were knee knockers everywhere too. I've banged my knees a few times at night. 99% of the time we were at "darken ship". If it was overcast you couldn't see squat.Quote:
Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
I rode out hurricane David on that can. :eek: :D
Yeehaa, bet that was a vomit inducing ride.
My son was on the AOE 1, Sacramento, something like 750 long, 150 wide, rated for 45 footers. He was a gunners mate. Loved his .50 deck mounted.
A number of years ago; I wos on a Ferry from Calais (Fr) to Dover (UK), tiz only a short punt.... 35/40 miles ....... Anyways w0s on this thing for 9 Hrs in whooshing wind & rolling seez ..... Kept looking at the lights on land that kept appearing & disappearing (Had gone dark) People w0s puking everywhere .... Made the place seriously slippy..... Big lump of summink came smashing thro the window in tha Bar (I was mortified) Luckily they had another bar (Phew) Anyways not been on anything larger than a duck pond row boat since :mad:
We were never on the Japanese hit list, as usual the propaganda got in the way of the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by BadDriver
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...569832145.htmlQuote:
Japanese invasion a myth: historian
By Mark Forbes
June 1 2002
Wartime propaganda
"He's coming south" screamed the poster, featuring a Japanese soldier poised to trample over a defenceless Australia. It was part of a Curtin government campaign that contributed to a state of panic across the nation in 1942 after the fall of Singapore and air raids on Darwin.
Across the years, history books and high school lessons have repeated the stories of a Japanese invasion plan, foiled only by the diggers' desperate efforts on the Kokoda Trail and the United States' naval victory in the Coral Sea. An imaginary "Brisbane Line" was drawn to represent Australia's second line of defence against the approaching hordes.
The trouble is, someone forgot to tell the Japanese. The only real invasion plan appears to have existed in the minds of prime minister John Curtin and the Australian public.
Japan never seriously intended to invade Australia, a fact known to the Australian Government by mid-1942 and confirmed by intelligence reports, principal historian to the Australian War Memorial, Peter Stanley, said yesterday at a conference examining the events of 1942.
"I'm sick of the myth; it's time to knock it on the head," he said. "A lie told for wartime propaganda stays with us.
You've become so used to being fed lies by that excuse for a news media, but really it's just the propaganda arm of the pentagon, you wouldn't know what are facts and what are myths anymore.
And how do you know that's not a lie in itself? Being a revisionist, you must disbelieve everything.
How do you know this forum really exists? :r
lt's not that clear cut Werz. Honest.
Without doing the history bit, if New Guinea had fallen, different ball game.
Japan's top of the list was the US carrier force. The rest of the SW Pacific strategy was undecided beyond fortifying the Solomons at Guadalcanal.
Had Midway gone the other way, and oh how close it came - (people just don't realise how close that fight was) - then things would have been very different for the next 18 months. Certainly US Marines on GuadalCanal in Aug '42 wouldn't have happened. There were some real hero's gave all at Midway.
I leave it to the experts, who have the the 20/20 vision of hindsight, the Japanese high commands files and interrogation reports..
Of course you do. None of the honorable Japanese would have lied to the running-dog American and Australian forces to make things better for them in captivity, would they... :tQuote:
Originally Posted by werz
Putz.
You are worse than a kid not wanting to leave kiddie land.Quote:
Originally Posted by werz
STFU and get in the car. :mad:
You tell him Hero. Werz refuses to admit the USA ever did anything to change the world for the good.Quote:
Originally Posted by herosrest
I am saying the same thing I have always said about werz. He is freaking envious of the US. I don't blame him really. Look at that hunk of scrub land he calls HIS country. :D
there's a lot of love in these parts for werz.......... :D
Werz is just a paranoid and sour old man. You know, the "get off my lawn" type. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by mireland
He hates America and I am an American. Hmmmm, no wonder he gets all the love.
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Originally Posted by BadDriver
he is a bit of a PITA. :D
And he used to get me all PO'd. I just roll with whatever he wants to post. Just don't let the paranoia rub off on you. :eek: :tQuote:
Originally Posted by mireland
Werz is an expert on everything. If you don't believe me, just ask HIM.
Fasten your seatbelt, it's going to be a short but exciting ride
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Originally Posted by BadDriver
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Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
:D I still say that was a good one. I laffed my acre off.
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Fasten yer seatbelts buddy, we wouldn't want you falling out of the car.
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You mean there's a lot of love here for werz in parts? :tQuote:
Originally Posted by mireland
Yeah, lots of little gooey ones :xQuote:
Originally Posted by Lgbpop
bits, pieces, whatever... :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lgbpop
Sausage. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mireland
I wouldn't feed that to my dogQuote:
Originally Posted by BadDriver