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Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: brady on February 18, 2005, 12:21:58 AM

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Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: Pongo on February 18, 2005, 01:04:21 AM

brooklyn class CL

Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: rshubert on February 18, 2005, 08:02:30 AM

USS Savannah,  off Salerno after being hit by a German guided glide bomb on the Number 3 turret on Sept. 11 1943.  She lived to sail again, although casualties were heavy and she was out of the war until November 1944.

Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: brady on February 18, 2005, 02:06:09 PM

USS Savannah, it is:)

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Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: rshubert on February 18, 2005, 03:07:07 PM

to the german crew who launched that glide bomb.  A perfect hit.  It should have sunk the ship.  Another to the ship's crew for excellent damage control.

One wonders what the difference was between the Savannah and the Arizona.  Both took a direct hit on the turret, which penetrated to the shell rooms and magazines.  One blew in half, the other didn't.

Maybe Tony Williams knows some more of this history...


TONY!!! COME HEEE-ERE!!!

Title: Name This...(1015)
Post by: brady on February 18, 2005, 03:22:12 PM

The Savannah, was saved largely do to the fact that so much watter rused in and prevented a Magizine detonation.