Subdeacon Joe Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 80-G-490175 Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945 Download Image:Low (PNG, 319x319px, 68KB)Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 151KB)High (TIFF, 6314x4922px, 30MB) Title: Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945 Description: USS South Dakota (BB-57) fires her forward 16/45 guns at Kamaishi targets during the bombardment. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Catalog #: 80-G-490175 Related Content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 The SoDak was really a hard-luck ship. First she ground herself really hard on an underwater pinnacle in the South Pacific, causing a lot of damage to her hull. The she took a bomb hit at Santa Cruz that partially knocked one turret out of action. A few days later she was in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal against the Japanese battleship Kirishima, suffered a complete loss of power right in the middle of the fight and promptly got the s*** kicked out of her. A couple years later at the Battle of the Philippine Sea she took another bomb hit that killed dozens of crewmembers. And finally she had an undignified end as she was merely scrapped instead of becoming a museum ship like two of her sisters were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: The SoDak was really a hard-luck ship. First she ground herself really hard on an underwater pinnacle in the South Pacific, causing a lot of damage to her hull. The she took a bomb hit at Santa Cruz that partially knocked one turret out of action. A few days later she was in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal against the Japanese battleship Kirishima, suffered a complete loss of power right in the middle of the fight and promptly got the s*** kicked out of her. A couple years later at the Battle of the Philippine Sea she took another bomb hit that killed dozens of crewmembers. And finally she had an undignified end as she was merely scrapped instead of becoming a museum ship like two of her sisters were. According to Navy legend/superstition at the time, she was jinxed because her sponsors from the state of South Dakota never made arrangements for the gift of a captain's mess silver tea service, a violation of Navy tradition for battleships. As I recall, she was the only battleship to have suffered that severe breach of etiquette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 nothing like a battleship to make a guys gunsafe look small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: According to Navy legend/superstition at the time, she was jinxed because her sponsors from the state of South Dakota never made arrangements for the gift of a captain's mess silver tea service, a violation of Navy tradition for battleships. As I recall, she was the only battleship to have suffered that severe breach of etiquette. Interesting. I had forgotten about that. It wasn’t just for Battleships. In the Officer’s Mess aboard my ship, the USS Virginia CGN-38, there was a silver tea service and a complete set of silver-ware including silver creamers, butter dishes and sugar bowls to accommodate the ship’s full compliment of officers provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia. I should know. I had to polish the sh...beautiful silver when on Mess Duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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