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Offline Jester

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« on: January 05, 2006, 12:44:42 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2006, 01:35:31 AM »
The Philadephia Experiment?
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2006, 01:42:25 AM »
FARKING HELL! I HATE Imagehosting.us! :mad:  Avoid it like the plague guys!

OK... lets try again. Should work now.  :rolleyes:
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2006, 02:08:13 AM »
Monitor-HMS Abercrombie or HMS Roberts

Probably Abercrombie based on the paint job.

Did some checking.  It's Abercrombie :)

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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2006, 09:55:59 AM »
Hope you don't mind but I thought I'd chuck in one from my own collection. Anyone know this? Shouldn't be too tough.
 
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« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2006, 10:37:41 AM »
Prinz Eugen after her surrender based on the Liberators flying overhead.
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« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2006, 11:49:09 AM »
Pitty they sunk her at Bikini.  She sure was a sharp looking cruiser.
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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2006, 01:38:24 PM »
The worst loss of a ship at Bikini was the Saratoga, an historically important ship wasted for no good reason (they had plenty of ships for that test, no need to use the Sara).
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« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2006, 04:16:58 PM »
Well done. Not a difficult one really! She was rather famous. The pic was taken at 200 feet by a Liberator of 547 Squadron RAF Coastal Command between Denmark and the UK on May 25 1945. So a cigar to Guppy!

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« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2006, 06:02:23 PM »
The Prinz Eugen hit a reef and capsized off of Kwajalein. She's still there.

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« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2006, 09:46:15 PM »
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The worst loss of a ship at Bikini was the Saratoga, an historically important ship wasted for no good reason (they had plenty of ships for that test, no need to use the Sara).


Disagree - By the end of WW2 the "Sara" was pretty well long in the tooth. Having taken several torpedoes and a couple Kamikaze hits during the war - while serviceable, it was taking more and more to keep her running. That and with all the Essex CV's and the Midway's coming into the fleet she was pretty much obselete. Still it would have been nice if they could have made a museum out of her.

A REAL tragic loss was that they didn't try and save the USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 from being scrapped. She was the most decorated ship in the history of anyone's Navy - having 20 Battlestars and a boatload of other awards.

Another loss at Bikini was the battleship USS ARKANSAS BB-33. Oldest BB in the fleet.  :cry

P.S. KD303, hijack another one of my threads and I am going to send Guedio & Vinny over to rearange your kneecaps!  :mad:   ( ;) )
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2006, 10:34:22 PM »
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Disagree - By the end of WW2 the "Sara" was pretty well long in the tooth. Having taken several torpedoes and a couple Kamikaze hits during the war - while serviceable, it was taking more and more to keep her running. That and with all the Essex CV's and the Midway's coming into the fleet she was pretty much obselete. Still it would have been nice if they could have made a museum out of her.

A REAL tragic loss was that they didn't try and save the USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 from being scrapped. She was the most decorated ship in the history of anyone's Navy - having 20 Battlestars and a boatload of other awards.

Another loss at Bikini was the battleship USS ARKANSAS BB-33. Oldest BB in the fleet.  :cry

P.S. KD303, hijack another one of my threads and I am going to send Guedio & Vinny over to rearange your kneecaps!  :mad:   ( ;) )


Throw in any of the Pearl Harbor Battleships that could have been saved.  Tennessee, Califorina, West Virginia, Maryland, Nevada...

Just one saved and made into a memorial/museum at Pearl would have been a great move.  Kinda partial to West Virginia since she was the most badly damaged of the bunch that got back into the war.
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2006, 10:40:03 PM »
Museums for elsewhere, sure, but Pearl's best memorial is over the Arizona. I've always had a soft spot for the Arizona. Wouldn't do it justice to have it supplanted by a floating museum for tourists moored right next to her.
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2006, 10:41:48 PM »
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Still it would have been nice if they could have made a museum out of her.


Yeah, thats what I meant, Sara should have been saved as she was an historicly important ship.
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2006, 11:08:47 PM »
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Museums for elsewhere, sure, but Pearl's best memorial is over the Arizona. I've always had a soft spot for the Arizona. Wouldn't do it justice to have it supplanted by a floating museum for tourists moored right next to her.


Not sure I buy that.  Say they'd saved West Virginia  that was in the row in front of Arizona.  And say they moored her where she was that day.  Imagine walking the deck of that battle wagon and being able to see what the life was like for those sailors inside that ship, and then looking off the back and seeing the Arizona where it is lying knowing that people were standing where you are standing when the Arizona went up.  It could only have heightened the experience and made it that much more powerful.

A moot point however as they scrapped em all.

Agreed on both Saratoga and Enterprise.  A lack of foresight on both counts.  But I suppose at that point they were wanting to put it all behind them and weren't thinking historical value.
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