Posted on 07/30/2014 3:39:01 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A rare occurrence recently in the Pacific Ocean as more than 40 international naval ships joined together for a single photo shoot.
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Seems like a target rich environment
WW2 where there was hundreds of ships in various task forces.
Wish there were photos of that along with the thousand plane raids.
NWO. How cute.
We don't have that many ships anymore.
Whew! That’s purdy!
Dang! Really puts it into perspective.
That’s what we used to call a “show of power.” The worlds navies prior to the 1950s must’ve shat themselves when they saw the American flag flying over a destroyer.
In a documentary about the rise and fall of the 3rd Reich they read a diary entry by a German soldier stationed as he witnessed the invasion fleet appearing over the horizon.
He wrote, “This can’t be real. There aren’t that many ships in the world”.
And consider this: there were no port or base facilities there. The Navy had a floating maintenance and supply base in the atoll and refueling was done by fleet oilers. No navy has seen the like of it before or since.
Now THAT is an impressive Navy! The Japs came and sunk a few boats in a harbor; they had no idea we’d return with so much heavy metal!
Are they headed to Israel for Armageddon?
And some poor SOB in CIC had to plot every one of them by hand. :-(
P.S. I’d like to recognize the mining industry that dug up all the iron ore and coal to make all that heavy metal. Talk about an industry that delivered! Just wow.
Ka’ping !!
I think Yamamoto had a pretty good idea of what we could do. He went to Harvard, served two posts in Washington and traveled extensively. He opposed war with the US and only put together his Pearl Harbor plan when Tojo and the Army forced the war on the Navy. Here is his famous (or infamous) quote:
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians (who speak so lightly of a Japanese-American war) have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.
Yep, it was that "dirty" industry that was essential to winning WWII.
Actually the coal industry is doing ok, but the product is going overseas to be burned. We ship Indiana coal all the way down the Mississippi, across the Atlantic and it’s still cheaper than the domestic German coal.
I only see 4 boats and 36 targets.
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