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Tango01 | 12 Dec 2021 9:29 p.m. PST |
… with potatoes "In 1943, the USS O'Bannon was on patrol near the Solomon Islands when it came in contact with a Japanese submarine. This encounter would end with one of the greatest sea stories in U.S. naval history, but like all sea stories, no one knows how true it actually is. The O'Bannon was a legendary destroyer, the only ship to escape the naval battle off of Guadalcanal unharmed while still sinking a Japanese battleship. In April 1943, still high off the victory in the Guadalcanal campaign, the destroyer was a lone ship off the Solomons…" Main page link Armand
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Editor in Chief Bill | 12 Dec 2021 9:34 p.m. PST |
Obviously, we need a special rule to cover that. |
Zephyr1 | 12 Dec 2021 10:21 p.m. PST |
Only for Irish-named destroyers..? ;-) |
William Warner | 12 Dec 2021 11:35 p.m. PST |
When I was a sailor in the late 60's, I was old that the only difference between a "sea story" and a fairy tale was that one began "once upon a time," and the other began "no s--t, there I was." |
Tango01 | 13 Dec 2021 3:25 p.m. PST |
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Wolfhag | 10 Jan 2022 5:29 p.m. PST |
They weren't potatoes, they were "Irish Grenades". Really, maybe the Japs thought they were grenades. Wolfhag |
Mark 1 | 01 Feb 2022 4:06 p.m. PST |
They weren't potatoes, they were "Irish Grenades". For that, I'm afraid you may have to go with the French rather than the Irish. Pomme = Potato. Or Apple. Same word. Potatoes are basically "earth apples" to the French. Pomegranate = red fruit with sweet gelatinous interior and many seeds, or a grenade (old style Napoleonic era apple/potato-sized spherical bomb with fuze sticking out of a cork on top). So for potato grenades I'd have to go with the French. -Mark (aka: Mk 1) |
Bozkashi Jones | 19 Apr 2022 10:50 a.m. PST |
Hang on… this happened more than once?! Very similar to the encounter between the USS Borie and U-405 in the North Atlantic later the same year. Nick |
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