Newsgroups: sci.military
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Battleships
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 05:01:36 GMT
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Message-ID: <1990Oct30.050136.3942@cbnews.att.com>
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
In article <1990Oct29.024749.5785@cbnews.att.com> mailrus!sharkey!amara!khai@uunet.UU.NET (S. Khai Mong) writes:
>plus, given the geography, they were almost on a suicidal mission.  In
>fact, it was one of the few times in history that the classic "T" was
>crossed, where the entire broadside of the American battleship line
>was brought to bear on an advancing Japanese fleet...

And to cap it off, this was a night battle and some of the US battleships
had fire-control radar.
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