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Title: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 19, 2009, 07:27:04 AM
Actual  Recordings Made on USS Sealion During WW II:
On 21 Nov 1944, Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Kongo was sunk by USS Sealion. The crew of Sealion made sound recordings in the conning tower of the submarine during the attack. They also recorded another attack during their 5th war patrol in March of 1945.

http://www.hnsa.org/sound/index.htm#sealion
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: FiLtH on November 19, 2009, 08:21:33 AM
 I clicked on the Sealion clip but nothing happened.
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: DREDIOCK on November 19, 2009, 09:10:45 AM
Yea it did. It brought you down a paragraph or so.
Then (on the page the link I put up sends you to) click on one of the media icons to the right of the following listing for your prefered media player

Introduction by Fred Schuler    
Attack on Battleship Kongo, Record 1    
Attack on Battleship Kongo, Record 2    
Attack on Battleship Kongo, Record 3    
Attack on Battleship Kongo, Record 4    
Attack on oiler, Record 1    
Attack on oiler, Record 2    
Attack on oiler, Record 3    
Attack on oiler, Record 4
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: FiLtH on November 20, 2009, 08:40:28 AM
  That was cool..hard to understand but worth a listen for the history of it.


  Didnt realize how to operate that damn site..you kids an yer new fangled computers!
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Shuffler on November 20, 2009, 09:02:36 AM
I found it very interesting. Thanks for the post!
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Karnak on November 20, 2009, 12:23:10 PM
Always bothers me that the Kongo class get listed as battleships.  They were pretty clearly battlecruisers.
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Shuffler on November 20, 2009, 12:27:34 PM
Always bothers me that the Kongo class get listed as battleships.  They were pretty clearly battlecruisers.

Evidently the one thing they have in common is that if they get holes in them.... they sink.
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Saurdaukar on November 20, 2009, 01:40:04 PM
Awesome find, thanks.
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Brooke on November 20, 2009, 09:24:59 PM
Nifty find.  Thanks for posting.  :aok
Title: Re: Recordings Made on USS Sealion during attack on Jap ship Kongo
Post by: Gabriel on November 20, 2009, 09:59:17 PM
Always bothers me that the Kongo class get listed as battleships.  They were pretty clearly battlecruisers.

The Japanese themselves calling them Battleships after their major interwar overhauls, probably has something to do with it.   :rolleyes: