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2022-06-25 -Land of the Free

USS Samuel B Roberts: World's deepest shipwreck discovered

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Posted by Matt 2022-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 They gave the last full measure.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-06-25 07:29|| 2022-06-25 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 A story Hollyweird will never tell.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-25 08:06|| 2022-06-25 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I knew a sailor that was there. His Gun Captain, he was a topside gunner on a 20mm Oerlikon mount, looked at him and said "Guns [his nickname], its been good to know ya!" Brave sailors one and all.

Posted by magpie 2022-06-25 09:22|| 2022-06-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"
one hell of a book

Posted by Mercutio 2022-06-25 09:23|| 2022-06-25 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Excellent book. They should all have been given the Medal of Honor.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-06-25 09:24|| 2022-06-25 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Drachinefel's Samar Straits video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdcvDiA3lE

Posted by James 2022-06-25 10:02|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2022-06-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Excellent link. Thanks, James.

Posted by Matt 2022-06-25 10:29|| 2022-06-25 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Consider that video for sailors vs the risible pronoun training clown show.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-25 11:45|| 2022-06-25 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 And just an incredible feat finding this. I mean, 4 miles/7km deep? Wow.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-25 13:00|| 2022-06-25 13:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Victor Vescovo for President. The man knows how to get hard things done.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-25 13:13|| 2022-06-25 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 What an amazing find. Incredible.

LSotTCS is a movie script ready to go. Before even getting into the latest gen of actors and their capacity to fill the roles, the current bunch of directors are absolute shit, and the committee of proper dialogue would fart all over things. Probably end up with something even worse than what the chinese did with Midway.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-25 13:23|| 2022-06-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#12 A non-Hollwood look at Vescovo's work.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-25 13:35|| 2022-06-25 13:35|| Front Page Top

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