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I guess we enthusiasts should count our blessings there are a few folks such as P Allen who do this kind of stuff. Good for him and I hope he keeps his interests in WWII history going for a long time.


This photo may give a sense of scale of that big boat.


Some of the poor souls that most likely went down with her.
(Emperor Hirohito of Japan (front row, center), with officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on board the Japanese battleship Musashi off Yokosuka Naval Base)

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Hear, hear. The story of Taffy 3 deserves to be told and retold.

No, neither one. Not yet, anyway.

Thank you Paul Allen! Now go home and finish your B-17E already.

We can also count our blessings that the Japanese wasted all those resources on a battleship instead of building a couple more carriers or submarines!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

I've never been able to get back to tracking down just HOW this bell is where it is.
http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_di ... age_22.htm

[quote="Chris Brame"]Thank you Paul Allen! Now go home and finish your B-17E already. [quote]

Ditto, neat to see him use his little pleasure boat for interesting historical work instead of just wining and dining. Good on him, thank you very much.

My next request is for a Stuka....

Can't wait to see more photos of this ship, especially the gun turrets...

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Depending on how the ship sank, the turrets might not be there. The turrets are held in place by gravity and if the ship rolled over, the turrets would have fallen free and could be miles for the main wreckage.

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I've sometimes wondered how difficult it would be to raise a complete turret that fell free during sinking. A turret from the Bismarck would make an impressive display once cleaned up, though I'm guessing that the entire Bismarck wreck site is a protected war grave along with the problem that it's even deeper than the Titanic wreck.

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"They done it, they done it, damned if they ain't flew." December 17, 1903

And the cranes used to place those turrets during construction were big enough, and considered valuable enough that the four of them were divvied up as war booty at the end of WWII. The US, UK, France and USSR each got one

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

One of them was in Long Beach and was used to lift the HK-1 onto the barge so it could be moved into the dome. It was named Herman the German.

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
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