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I remember the description of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The guy that got the "Medal" was driving a mini tin can aka destroyer escort. The razzle made him distorted in size with the optics the enemy was using. The Japanese couldn't get a accurate range on him. And kept missing him. They should have blown him out of the water.
He was able to cruise in a wreak havoc on a superior force. |
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Third Fleet aircraft carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 8 December 1944, during a break from operations in the Philippines area. The carriers are (from front to back): USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Wasp, Yorktown and Ticonderoga are all painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a. |
Here's a useful page for info:
World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...measure_16.jpg USS Alabama http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...camouflage.jpg Pattern for MS-16 "Thayer" camouflage Even more here: SHIP CAMOUFLAGE INSTRUCTIONS - SHIPS 2 |
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http://web.archive.org/web/201202052...rt/de413-2.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/201202052.../art/de413.jpg USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) Cmdr. Paul Rinn, the first commanding officer of the third USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58), believed in the power of naval heritage to inspire a crew. He insisted that his sailors know about the previous U.S. warships that bore Roberts‘ name. The first such ship, USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) was a small, lightly armed escort ship of no particular note — until it helped win the world’s largest naval battle. In an action that eminent naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison called “the most valiant of the entire war,” DE 413 and its fellow “small boys” helped turn away a vastly more powerful Japanese force and ensure American victory in the Pacific. More here: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) | Bradley Peniston |
A good book on this battle is "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour".
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SS Maheno. Broke lose being towed in cyclone.
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Edited - pic removed. -Z-man.
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