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Official BIG PICTURE thread.....(from US Naval Archive) - 5/31/2002 9:02:29 AM   
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On 14 June, a PBY spotted a small boat hundreds of miles
away from Midway. It was seen again on the 19th, and
the seaplane tender USS Ballard (AVD-10) was directed to
the area. There she found thirty-five Japanese navymen,
members of carrier Hiryu's engineering force who were left
for dead when she was abandoned before dawn on 5 June.
They had made their way topsides, found a boat as their ship
sank and had been sailing for two weeks trying to reach a
friendly territory.





http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg11.htm
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The LEXINGTON....... - 5/31/2002 10:06:05 AM   
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Artwork by F. Muller, circa 1919, depicting the definitive design
for these ships, whose construction was cancelled under
the Washington Naval Limitations Treaty of 1922.

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The North Carolina on her Shakedown Cruise! - 5/31/2002 10:13:24 AM   
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USS North Carolina, lead ship of a class of
35,000-ton battleships, was built at the New York
Navy Yard. When commissioned in April 1941, she
was the first new battleship to join the fleet in
nearly two decades.



Photographed during her shakedown cruise, May 1941.

The battleship is framed by an escorting destroyer's deck,
5"/ 38 gun barrel and a crewman.



View looking aft from the battleship's bow, showing her
forward superstructure and 16"/45 guns. Photographed
during her maiden voyage, circa May 1941.

Note Measure 1 camouflage paint, CXAM-1 radar antenna,
anchor chains and deck planking.



Fires her after 16"/45 guns in June 1941, during her
shakedown cruise.

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A bit more dramatic... - 5/31/2002 10:58:45 AM   
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Steaming in the Coral Sea, west of Espiritu Santo, about two hours before she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, 20 July 1943.
Photographed from USS Nicholas (DD-449).
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h97000/h97945.jpg[/IMG]

View taken at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 23 July 1943, showing damage inflicted when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on 20 July.
Photographed from off the port side, showing the ship's badly distorted stern, after 6-inch gun turrets, anti-splinter mats on the after superstructure and surface search radar (probably Type 271) at left.
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h80000/h80532.jpg[/IMG]

Photographed from off the port side, showing the ship's badly distorted stern and after 6-inch guns. Deck planking has been removed by the ship's crew.
Note: the size of the torpedo hole; Jacob's ladder at left; and draft markings at right.
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h80000/h80533.jpg[/IMG]

Photographed on the quarterdeck, looking forward from about 207 frame port side, showing the ship's badly distorted after deck and the after 6-inch gun turrets.
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h80000/h80535.jpg[/IMG]

Photographed looking aft from the center line of the Ward Room from about 179 station, after clearing away the majority of the wreckage.
Note foundation for the after gun turret at left and inwardly displaced plating around the torpedo hole, at right.
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h80000/h80537.jpg[/IMG]

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How to conduct a torpedo attack... - 5/31/2002 11:28:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (later nicknamed "Betty") fly low through anti-aircraft gunfire during a torpedo attack on U.S. Navy ships maneuvering between Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the morning of 8 August 1942.
Note that these planes are being flown without bomb-bay doors.
[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g17066.jpg[/IMG]

Edit: Some interesting [URL=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guad-1k2.htm]pics[/URL] of some of the crashed Bettys from this raid.

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- 5/31/2002 12:08:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow! These Japper Betty pilots are really flying their crates to the max! That is SERIOUSLY low level! :eek:

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- 5/31/2002 7:17:14 PM   
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- 5/31/2002 7:18:19 PM   
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The props of those Betty's should be skimming the water as low as they are.:cool:

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a few of my favs - 6/1/2002 12:20:16 AM   
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[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h51000/h51382.jpg[/IMG]

another dramatic photo, check out that sharp turn she just made:

[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g17031.jpg[/IMG]

finally a color photo showing an AP ending up wrecked on a lonely jungle coast during the UV campaign:


[IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/k01000/k01467a.jpg[/IMG]

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- 6/1/2002 5:35:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just noticed something. See that big white splotch on [I]Shokaku's[/I] hurricane deck? That's a really BIG fire! :eek:

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