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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
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Subject: Re: Biggest WWII battle ship
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Date: 7 Aug 90 04:11:27 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <1990Aug2.042347.3224@cbnews.att.com>, Chris Thompson writes: 
*> However, the biggest
*>WARSHIP in WWII is Shinano, which was designed as a battleship but
*>hastily converted to a flap top after Midway. She was sink by a US sub
*>during a transfer voyage before it was commissioned.
*>raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu

*	I seem to remember reading about that somewhere...was the Shinano
*sunk in the Sea of Japan, by the USS Tang?

Not by Tang; Tang's short-but-spectacular career was principally
as a commerce destroyer (see _Clear the Bridge_, by Richard O'Kane,
Tang's skipper, for a very well done account of Tang's 5 war patrols.)
Shinano was sunk by Archer-Fish, commanded by Joseph Enright.  as it
happens, my paperback copy of _Shinano!_, by the same Joseph Enright,
was in the back seat of the car i drove to work today, so i can tell
you that the ISBN is 0-312-90967-5, and that the US paperback publisher
is St. Martin's Press.  _Shinano!_ is unique among the memoirs of
US sub skippers in that the prime event of Enright's career,
overshadowing all the other events, is the sinking of Shinano; as
a result Enright went to some trouble to research the Japanese side
of the story, and spends 1/2 the book narrating what was happening
on Shinano and trying to get inside the heads of its crew.  because of
its focus, the book contains more about the tactics of the sub attack
that would otherwise be encountered.  it's a facinating book; well worth
looking up.

richard
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