daviemax wrote:
SaxMan wrote:
Wyoming was an Atlantic Fleet ship during World War II, which seems to add some credence to this picture being taken at Norfolk. In 1945 she was being used as an experimental mount for various anti-Kamikaze weapons and tactics, and IIRC, it was on the Wyoming where he suffered a heart attack and died on August 25, 1945.
I must have missed something along the way. Please advise who the antecedent of "he" is that had the heart attack. Thanks!Sorry, Dave! Senior moment, but yes, I was referring to Willis "Ching" Lee, and I agree, as a gunnery tactician, he was brilliant. Lee was an expert shot with any weapon, from a .22 all the way up to the mighty 16 inch naval rifles.
The last battleship duel in history was in the Suriago Strait during the Leyte Gulf battle, when Jesse Oldendorfs old BBs whipped up on the Japanese Southern Force, but that more of a Turkey Shoot than the out and out slugfest like the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Five out of the six BBs in the battle line at Suriago Strait were Pearl Harbor survivors: Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, California and Tennessee (Mississippi was the 6th).
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