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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Baumer on September 21, 2010, 06:23:20 PM
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I think I would have picked a different place to sit down and check out my boot.
(http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/f2579530008c3c3c_landing)
Here's a link to the large version;
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=bougainville+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbougainville%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D909%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10,1104&imgurl=f2579530008c3c3c (http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=bougainville+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbougainville%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D909%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10,1104&imgurl=f2579530008c3c3c)
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Silly Marine. :D
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I hope that didn't end like I am thinking it did..... :bolt:
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Awesome pic! Thanks for sharing Baumer! :)
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wow amazing it wasn't more buried
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He's even smoking on it. :lol :aok
(I know that won't set it off, just struck me as funny)
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thats a cool pic, and one BIG round lol. is that a battleship round? 16"?
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Me thinks its pre-disasterized but to be sure he should give her a swift kick in the nose when he gets that thar boot on
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thats a cool pic, and one BIG round lol. is that a battleship round? 16"?
Think it might be from one of the IJN naval shore guns.
ack-ack
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I suppose surviving a Marine landing on a pacific island defended by the Japanese might make a guy oblivious to common dangers.
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I wonder if he banged his shoe on it.
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"Marine Pfc. Raymond Hubert using unexploded 16-inch naval shell for resting place while shaking 3-day accumulation of sand from his boondocker, during WWII."
Location: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Date taken: July 04, 1944
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"Marine Pfc. Raymond Hubert using unexploded 16-inch naval shell for resting place while shaking 3-day accumulation of sand from his boondocker, during WWII."
Location: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Date taken: July 04, 1944
:aok
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I do not think that round was ever fired. There is no scarring on the round itself, the fuze is completely intact. If you just dropped the thing on its nose, it would damage the fuse some. It looks to me like the round was placed there for this picture.
Edit: Then again, I could be an idiot.
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That picture is used on the cover of the Stephen Ambrose book "Americans at War" which I just happen to be reading.
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Nice pic but I agree with Tom, if it had landed there then there would be a dirty great hole as the kinetic energy is transferred to the surrounding ground. Throw a pebble at some sand and see what happens to the sand around it when it has landed.
VoX.
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I seriously doubt that a time life photographer had the time, and equipment, to stage 2,000 pound cannon round shortly after the invasion of Saipan. I know it seems odd, how clean it looks, and that there's not a big crater, but I suspect there's some other explanation.
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Who took the photo??? :O
Was he more drunken then the other 'smart' guy? :O :O
:bolt:
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The really intresting thing would be to know if the marine survived the war.
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Thats one of those smart weapons. The marine on it is the anti handling detonator. If the enemy tries to sneak up and disarm it he pulls out his hammer and pings it on the fuse.
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He tested it already. It was a Dud.
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/wonkalumps/Looney%20Tunes%20gifs/Bugs-gremlin.gif)
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Hes a Marine, that shell wouldnt dare go off, It might make him mad :aok
Man thats just nuts :lol
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I seriously doubt that a time life photographer had the time, and equipment, to stage 2,000 pound cannon round shortly after the invasion of Saipan. I know it seems odd, how clean it looks, and that there's not a big crater, but I suspect there's some other explanation.
There is also the good possibility that it isn't a US Navy round and could have come from a IJN naval gun that was set up to defend the invasion beaches.
ack-ack
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Obviously Photoshop v0.001a (military-grade beta version).
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There is also the good possibility that it isn't a US Navy round and could have come from a IJN naval gun that was set up to defend the invasion beaches.
ack-ack
It's an US navy shell (looks like HC Mark 13). It has been fired, you can see the rotating ring is rifled, that happens only when shell goes through the barrel. I think they fired over 2000 of 16" shells in that battle, many did not explode.
In addition, in book "Breaching The Marianas: The Battle For Saipan" caption of the very same picture claims it as unexploded shell