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Anyone know? - 12/7/2020 3:36:22 PM   
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RE: Anyone know? - 12/7/2020 3:44:16 PM   
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RE: Anyone know? - 12/7/2020 3:52:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wasn't it from J Fahey's "Pacific War Diary"? He served on a 40mm mount aboard Montpelier.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/7/2020 3:53:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yep, I heard this one many years ago, probably in an American docu film about the WWII in the Pacific. It stuck with me all those years. I remember there was a color footgae, when those words were spoken (blue ocean and some Bofors AA guns). The surreal nature of the quote stuck.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/7/2020 5:34:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of the funny sayings from Leyte Gulf CVE's 40 mm AAA sergeant was (when those IJN heavy surface combatants were bearing on them) was:

"We are sucking them into 40 mm range!"

I don't remember which book it was in, though.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 3:12:09 AM   
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One of the funny sayings from Leyte Gulf CVE's 40 mm AAA sergeant was (when those IJN heavy surface combatants were bearing on them) was:

"We are sucking them into 40 mm range!"

I don't remember which book it was in, though.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 10:41:24 AM   
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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 12:56:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I vaguely recall I heard it on a history channel program about USN ships under kamikaze attack.

It may have been about a cruiser, or query something like the USS Franklin or Bunker Hill.

What I do remember was it was part of a veteran account.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 1:14:36 PM   
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I vaguely recall I heard it on a history channel program about USN ships under kamikaze attack.

It may have been about a cruiser, or query something like the USS Franklin or Bunker Hill.

What I do remember was it was part of a veteran account.


Yes, it was a kamikaze episode on "world War two in color", or something like that....GP

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 1:47:58 PM   
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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 5:00:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had heard the quote "somewhere" as well. The quote was in episode 23 of "The World at War" at about the 40 minute mark. The speaker was Frank Manson. The episode can be found on several video sites. edit: From other sites, it appears Manson had been an officer aboard the USS Laffey.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/8/2020 11:50:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, I definitely remember hearing that one before, years ago.

You guys talking about it reminded me a a story my Dad told me. He was an AO2 on the Randolph 1944-5. He said there was a guy who one day during combat ops just drove one of the tow trucks right off the flight deck before anybody could even think about trying to stop him. He was never found by the task force destroyers. Yeesh.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/9/2020 7:23:56 PM   
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sergeant


No such thing in the US Navy. The Marines have them but I doubt CVEs had any Marines..IIRC it was a Chief Petty Officer on USS White Plains.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/9/2020 11:06:11 PM   
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sergeant


No such thing in the US Navy. The Marines have them but I doubt CVEs had any Marines..IIRC it was a Chief Petty Officer on USS White Plains.

Could be a position name rather than a rank? You can be a gun captain without being a captain.

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/10/2020 1:53:51 AM   
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RE: Anyone know? - 12/10/2020 9:39:09 AM   
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As I used to rile some US Navy POs: "You know, there are petty thieves and petty officers..."



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RE: Anyone know? - 12/10/2020 10:49:23 AM   
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Like asking USN PO if the chevrons point to direction their service is going to...

(To those not knowing, US Army and USMC chevrons point upwards, Navy's and Air Force's downwards...)

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RE: Anyone know? - 12/11/2020 8:24:48 AM   
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