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Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 12:02:51 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 12:03:58 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 12:23:05 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 12:36:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Actually the two planes in the foreground are Avengers.  Note the one in back the landing gear retracts outward into the wing and both have the pitot tube stickin up off the port wing tip.

I do think it's probably Samar too, though it might be one of the other late war battles in which CVEs were hit by kamikaze's.  It might explain why the deck hands aren't scrambling to get the Avengers on deck off the catapult, which is what they did at Samar.  All aircraft were airborne as soon as physically possible.

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 12:53:38 AM   
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Gambier bay with IJN Cruiser circled on the horizon

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 1:46:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Its St. Lo - because she was with other CVE's, while Gambier Bay was off with DE's Roberts and Johnston.

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 3:43:05 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 6:05:53 AM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 4:50:06 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 5:09:45 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 6:10:52 PM   
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But the DD's and DE's didn't run........


Man, that would make for a great movie. Rent yourself a Fletcher-class DD, and cast Bruce Willis as Evans on the Johnston. Wouldn't be a dry-eye in the house.

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 6:17:43 PM   
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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 6:26:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl


quote:

ORIGINAL: FOW

But the DD's and DE's didn't run........


Man, that would make for a great movie. Rent yourself a Fletcher-class DD, and cast Bruce Willis as Evans on the Johnston. Wouldn't be a dry-eye in the house.

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It would sell. Valkerie is a hit and we all know how that ends.




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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 8:20:52 PM   
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You could put there DiCaprio and make Winslet a philipino girl in love with him with the same effect

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/8/2009 10:46:51 PM   
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No please no another hollywood "absolutely out of reality" film based on "very lousely historical facts"... and Bruce Willis in no way.



I dunno, the facts as recounted seem pretty compelling. And Evans was apparently quite a leader, 3/4 Cherokee, something in the Waldron mold. Based on the principal's charisma alone, you'd need a "leading-man" type, rather than a character actor, Robert Duvall for instance, or Johnny Depp.

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/9/2009 12:13:59 AM   
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Off Samar, it is

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OFF SAMAR, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10-25. JUST AFTER 0700 THE SEA AROUND THE ESCORT AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS WHITE PLAINS ERUPTS AS SHE IS STRADDLED AND NEAR MISSED BY 18 INCH GUNFIRE FROM JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS WHICH HAVE SURPRISED THE ESCORT CARRIER TASK GROUP 77:4:1. IN THE FOREGROUND IS THE FLIGHT DECK OF HER SISTER SHIP, USS KITKUN BAY. TWO GRUMMAN TBF AVENGER AIRCRAFT OF THE KITKUN BAY'S AIR GROUP IS RANGED ON THE FLIGHT DECK AFT.

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RE: Name This AE...191 - 1/9/2009 1:35:29 AM   
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One of my distant cousins died on the Johnston
My sister in laws, mothers brother.
He survived it only to go back below deck to rescue his friends and never
made it back.

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