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The Constitutional Choo choo
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The Montana class capital ships.
The next generation. And under development until 1942
If you like old Dreads and Capitol ships. You'll like this guy's "take" and what changes would have been made to the Montana class had WWII dragged on. https://youtu.be/xjc--Ata5kk |
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Toured the New Jersey. Was very cool!
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Tried it on and it fit
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The Missouri is at Pearl. Toured her almost 12 years ago. It’s a really big boat with a lot of history.
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There's a video somewhere showing either the Missouri or the Iowa firing all of her 16-inchers at the same time abeam, and you can see the wake of the ship bent behind her as the recoil shoved the ship sideways in the water.
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My parents took me to see the USS North Carolina in the mid 60's. I am sure we toured it but what I remember is that evening they had a show. You parked and had a speaker like at a drive-in from those days. You heard the crew during a battle and they fired off the guns at various times. Very impressive to this 7 year old!
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No, that's USS Missouri. Faces the USS Arizona. The Japanese surrendered on Missouri's deck, so...
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"Think BOOM!"
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No, they couldn't. Too much mass.
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PacEx 1989
was on CVN 70. It looked like the whole gd navy was in one place awesome day. |
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Did you hear what I said?
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I experienced a lot of cool things during in Navy days that I didn't really appreciate at the time. This definitely wasn't one of those. I'd been in only a few months when I saw that, and never saw it again. |
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The Constitutional Choo choo
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Being around the hub of activities going on during the construction of such ships had to be an awesome job.
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