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RE: Name This AE...350 - 6/18/2009 2:15:38 AM

Brady

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USS San Juan (CL-54), it is

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Crewmen at general quarters, while the ship was at sea, circa 1942. View looks aft from the after superstructure.
Note flash-protection clothing worn by the men, 1.1" quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun mount in left center, 5"/38 guns beyond, and depth charges on "K-gun" throwers by the main deck edge.

You forgot the little smiley after the last bit! (see post 19)

Your right I did sapce the

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RE: Name This AE...350 - 6/18/2009 7:23:14 PM

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Depth Charges were used by TBM and TBFs against ground troops too. They were thin-walled with big explosive charge - so there were big blasts. Allies used them in Guadalcanal to hit some defiladed japanese positions. Few DCs into a gully and you have all messed up there - trees, limbs, kunai grass, limbs, all together...

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