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From: hall@EBay.Sun.COM (Scott Hallmark)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: _furious_ And _iowa_
Keywords: Iowa class BB
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.042719.29114@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 04:27:19 GMT
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From: hall@EBay.Sun.COM (Scott Hallmark)

In article <1990Aug23.014805.2221@cbnews.att.com>, Scott.Johnson@p0.f7.n391.z1.fidonet.org (Scott Johnson) writes:
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>From: Scott.Johnson@p0.f7.n391.z1.fidonet.org (Scott Johnson)
>
> PG> In at least one sense, it isn't possible to appraise the 
> PG> performance of American battleship armor.  As far as I can 
> PG> tell, no U.S. battleship was ever hit on her main armor by a 
> PG> large-caliber shell in combat.  Counter- examples are welcome.
>
>        Well, one of this class took a kamikaze on the belt armor... It
>did no damage other than blowing a few crewmen from their stations. I
>think it was the battle of Okinawa
  
 The U.S.S. Missouri BB-63 was the Battleship that took a Japanese Zero
 in the side. The Zero did a suicide dive and hit the ship @ frame 225
 STBD. side. I talked w/ a few old timers who were there then and they 
 swept what was left of the zero over the side. As for the pilot, the
 upper half of his torso also landed on the main deck.



 Scott Hallmark/BB-63 Plankowner/Golden Shellback