A different Leyte Gulf
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That is the real USS Mount Hood blowing up at Ulithi, yes. Pretty spectacular in horrifyingly bad way.
That is a bad day for the men caught in that explosion.
The picture really carries the message. Keep your munitionsand oil ships away from one another and protect them as best you can.
From the Wiki page on her
Mount Hood's former position was revealed by a trench in the ocean floor 1,000 feet (300 m) long, 200 feet (60 m) wide, and 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 m) deep.[1] The largest remaining piece of the hull was found in the trench and measured no bigger than 16 by 10 feet (5 by 3 m). No other remains of Mount Hood were found except fragments of metal which had struck other ships in the harbor and a few tattered pages of a signal notebook found floating in the water several hundred yards away. No human remains were recovered of the 350 men aboard Mount Hood or small boats loading alongside at the time of the explosion.[1]
Mount Hood's former position was revealed by a trench in the ocean floor 1,000 feet (300 m) long, 200 feet (60 m) wide, and 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 m) deep.[1] The largest remaining piece of the hull was found in the trench and measured no bigger than 16 by 10 feet (5 by 3 m). No other remains of Mount Hood were found except fragments of metal which had struck other ships in the harbor and a few tattered pages of a signal notebook found floating in the water several hundred yards away. No human remains were recovered of the 350 men aboard Mount Hood or small boats loading alongside at the time of the explosion.[1]
Well at least the first Hood had 3 survivors.
That is some hellish blast to carve out that much of a hole through the water. Well hopefully the men never even felt a twinge when the Mt Hood when BOOM!
Or don't protect them - too little and all you archieved were some extra entries on casaulty lists.
Wonder if a shell game would be more efficient in preventing hits than weak AA - a few already empty hulls to soak up hits by being extra 'vulnerable' to draw fire.
Seeing the guns outside of a turrent really brings home their sheer size.
Yes, they are enormous.
USS Kidd in Baton Rouge, LA....you need to get a picture of her when the river is low
....it's actually a pretty neat setupand Kidd was pretty well beat up by kamakasie....