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01-15-2005, 10:06 PM
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#166 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | That is definitely a BAD thing. Amazing no one was killed.
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01-15-2005, 10:07 PM
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#167 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I know. I'm amazed no one was killed, I think the loader got injured but that's it. Even the best piece of equipment can go wrong, that proves it. Those Paladins are sweet though.
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01-15-2005, 10:11 PM
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#168 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | No doubt... The first pic is from the side of the Island Structure of the USS George Washington, if Im not mistaken....
That is the Missouri, not the Iowa.....
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01-15-2005, 10:13 PM
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#169 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Well...that first one is a brilliant pic...
And if the Missouri isn't an Iowa class ship, then it proves I don't know my ships. 
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01-15-2005, 10:16 PM
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#170 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | LOL sorry dude, shoulda been clearer.. The Missouri IS an Iowa Class BB.......
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01-15-2005, 10:18 PM
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#171 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Okay. <phew> At least I have some knowledge on them. Those Iowa class served for a long time, but the USS Iowa did not sink the Tirpitz in the Atlantic...as some documentary on WWII warships tried to tell me.
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01-15-2005, 10:20 PM
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#172 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | Missouri is now a museum piece in Pearl Harbour. There's another one in Norfolk too, but I forget which one. New Jersey maybe?
I saw it last November when I was there. Impressed the hell outta me! | |
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01-15-2005, 10:22 PM
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#173 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Is it Missouri that's in Pearl Harbour? I didn't know that, I knew there was a memorial that was a Iowa Class BB..I just didn't know which one.
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01-15-2005, 10:32 PM
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#174 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | The memorial in Pearl is that of the USS Arizona, and it is sitting at the bottom of the harbor, along with the dead seamen that went down with her....
The Missouri is a display...... The USS Alabama is pierside in Mobile Bay.....
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01-15-2005, 10:34 PM
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#175 | | Senior Member
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Country: | They recovered 6 of the 'destroyed' ships on 7th Dec. 1941, and repaired and modernised them...sent them back out to battle...haha, the japs thought they'd got them..and three years later they were smashing jap troop and supply convoys...EAT THAT!
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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01-15-2005, 10:37 PM
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#176 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Beautiful thing wasnt it????
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01-15-2005, 10:39 PM
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#177 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Certainly was, and proved much cheaper. Whooping ass for half the price.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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01-15-2005, 10:46 PM
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#178 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Kinda like what we shoulda done with the remains of the World Trade Center......
Drop all that crap down on top of those Bastards when they were hidin out in Tora Bora... Bury those ****ers in their caves under tons of reinforced steel.....
Poetic Justice.....
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01-15-2005, 10:54 PM
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#179 | | Senior Member
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Country: | That sounds like a good idea..unfortunate the idea wasn't brought up earlier.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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01-15-2005, 11:01 PM
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#180 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Yup.....
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