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Thomamelas: Mar 11, 2009

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

yeah samar was completely nuts. destroyers charging battleships and the large battleship shells just punching right through the destroyer, looney tunes style, causing minimal damage - because the shells were designed to hit much larger ships at much greater distance. it got so hairy that american pilots stopped searching for their own home carriers and just landed on any friendly carrier to get gassed up and rearmed

if you're not a milhist nerd - during the american re-capture of the philippines in late 1943 and as part of a complex series of battles called the battle of leyte gulf, a large force of japanese heavy ships (including the largest battleship ever built, ever) completely jumps on a small escort force (taffy 3) of light carriers and destroyers screening the offloading of defenseless transports off the coast of the island of samar. the japanese heaviest battleship ever, yamato, by itself outweighed all other american ships in taffy 3 combined. the american force can't even run away fast enough because the escort carriers are too slow. so the escorting destroyers charge directly into the teeth of the japanese force, putting on a tremendous show of hopeless bravery before many of them get shot to pieces. their resistance was enough to prevent the japanese ships from shooting up the allied transports

It's not just the destroyers charging in. The USS Samuel B. Roberts was in there as well. A destroyer escort. 75% the total length and half the tonnage of the destroyers in that fight.

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The Lone Badger: Sep 24, 2007

By popular demand posted:

There's not enough amphetamine laced chocolate in the world to make me fly in any of the experimental late war nazi planes.

It's not really a plane. More of a crewed SAM.

# ? Mar 12, 2021 23:40

`Nemesis: Dec 30, 2000; railroad graffiti

Azathoth posted:

But Halsey didn't and not only did he not do that, he issued orders that gave the impression to his superiors that he had. Halsey then, when called out by his boss for his error, threw a hissyfit for about a half hour before sending help.

wikipedia says:

3,000 nautical miles (3,500 mi; 5,600 km) away at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz had monitored the desperate calls from Taffy 3, and sent Halsey a terse message: "Where is TF 34?". To complicate decryption, communications officers were to add a nonsense phrase at both ends of a message, in this case, "Turkey trots to water" and suffixed with "The world wonders." The receiving radioman repeated the "where is" section of this message and his staff failed to remove the trailing phrase "the world wonders." A simple query by a distant supervisor had, through the random actions of three sailors, become a stinging rebuke.

Halsey was infuriated since he did not recognize the final phrase as padding, possibly chosen for the 90th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade. He threw his hat to the deck and began to curse."

the Battle Off Samar article on wikipedia is long but very much worth reading.

"As anti-aircraft gunners observed helplessly, an officer cheered them by exclaiming, "Just wait a little longer, boys, we're suckering them into 40-mm range." "

# ? Mar 12, 2021 23:56

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There really needs to be a movie about that.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 00:31

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

There was one in development a few years ago but the director of Die Hard 5 was attached so probably for the best that project fell apart

# ? Mar 13, 2021 00:48

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 01:48

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ultrafilter posted:

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 01:48

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 02:01

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

https://i.imgur.com/Hcd90ww.mp4

That's some drat fine treefuckling there

# ? Mar 13, 2021 02:16

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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/l3ociVc.mp4

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pmcTRILOGY posted:

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 02:30

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Dillbag posted:

Forbidden mouse buttons

# ? Mar 13, 2021 02:47

koshmar: Oct 22, 2009; i'm not here

this isn't happening

TotalLossBrain posted:

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 03:53

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Azathoth posted:

So Sean Connery was right in Red October, Halsey did act stupidly?

# ? Mar 13, 2021 04:01

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Phy posted:

So Sean Connery was right in Red October, Halsey did act stupidly?

loving A. Read "Halsey's Typhoon" for another example of him being a moron.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 04:52

Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

Phy posted:

So Sean Connery was right in Red October, Halsey did act stupidly?

Halsey was highly aggressive, which played well into his overall legend but more often than not, his sailors paid the price for his aggressiveness, not the Japanese. More cautious admirals were not as well regarded in the press but compare Halsey's actions there, where the Japanese used their carriers as bait which Halsey was all too happy to take with how Spruance handled chasing the defeated Japanese fleet after Midway. Spruance took poo poo for not chasing the defeated Japanese fleet, but at the time the Japanese were well trained in night engagements and the US was ... not. Later night fights around Guadalcanal showed just how badly this would have potentially gone had US carriers stumbled across the Japanese surface fleet, but Spruance still took poo poo for what is almost certainly the right call in hindsight. So yeah, Connery's character was right.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 05:29

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 13:49

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

as someone else way way upthread posted, "spaghetti afraido"

# ? Mar 13, 2021 13:56

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Memento posted:

https://i.imgur.com/WUX5rAr.mp4

If anyone ever bitches about putting on safety equipment you should show them this video

Dude came very close to a split face

# ? Mar 13, 2021 14:01

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Nuh uh! Look at my rigorous test showing that's bullshit!
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 14:16

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Not dumb advice.

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 14:24

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`Nemesis posted:

the Battle Off Samar article on wikipedia is long but very much worth reading.

It�s my favourite Wikipedia article, for sure.

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

yeah samar was completely nuts. destroyers charging battleships and the large battleship shells just punching right through the destroyer, looney tunes style, causing minimal damage - because the shells were designed to hit much larger ships at much greater distance.

Crucially, the Japanese misidentified all the American ships being a class heavier than they were, so they never switched away from armour-piercing shells.

Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Mar 13, 2021

# ? Mar 13, 2021 15:41

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Uthor posted:

Not dumb advice.

https://twitter.com/itoldmythe/status/1370711786907910147?s=20

Come over to my place where its dumb o'clock all day everyday!

# ? Mar 13, 2021 15:41

wesleywillis: Dec 30, 2016; SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Memento posted:

https://i.imgur.com/WUX5rAr.mp4

I guess a face shield like that is better than nothing, but these days when I'm grinding I wear a welding mask with the dark turned off and set on Grind.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 16:29

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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wesleywillis posted:

I guess a face shield like that is better than nothing, but these days when I'm grinding I wear a welding mask with the dark turned off and set on Grind.

Isn't that a bit much for Grindr?

# ? Mar 13, 2021 17:22

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

By popular demand posted:

Isn't that a bit much for Grindr?

Idk, sounds hot and anonymous to me :confused:

# ? Mar 13, 2021 19:57

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# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:04

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Memento posted:

https://i.imgur.com/WUX5rAr.mp4

How were they holding the grinder if the disc ended up in the face shield?

# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:05

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mobby_6kl posted:

How were they holding the grinder if the disc ended up in the face shield?

I'm guessing flat up and down because they were using it to break a link in a bike chain

# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:11

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haveblue posted:

The F-104 was designed at a moment when we had realized supersonic flight required a very different design from subsonic but when we had not yet realized that you still have to accommodate subsonic flight because it's not possible for the aircraft to always be supersonic 100% of the time. So it's very, very good at flying fast in a straight line but not very good at turning, landing, and taking off

It's extra funny because the F-104 had a known tendency to lose control when sharply pitching up

It was also OSHA In that the wings had edges sharp enough to be a danger to ground crews. They made protective guards for them.

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low key sex master posted:

Dude came very close to a split face

Missed out on a hecking cool scar though.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:18

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Missed out on a hecking cool scar though.

And a splitting headache :dadjoke:

# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:21

gloom: Feb 1, 2003; distracted from distraction by distraction

Leon Sumbitches posted:

I don't think this was posted.

I wish that guy's dad from earlier in the thread had been around, the OSHA who told the workers to get out of a hole and while the foreman was arguing with him about it, the hole collapsed.

"Long Island cemetery worker killed as grave collapses on him"

Of all the cataclysmic dangers that come up in this thread, the most unnerving one to me is still the basic unshored trench.

Just a hole in the ground that can kill you dead, gently caress. Requesting your OSHA trenches please.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 21:16

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

Leon Sumbitches posted:

I don't think this was posted.

I wish that guy's dad from earlier in the thread had been around, the OSHA who told the workers to get out of a hole and while the foreman was arguing with him about it, the hole collapsed.

"Long Island cemetery worker killed as grave collapses on him"

This one?
https://www.safetynewsalert.com/viral-video-partial-trench-collapse-narrowly-misses-worker/

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 23:35

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Leon Sumbitches posted:

I don't think this was posted.

I wish that guy's dad from earlier in the thread had been around, the OSHA who told the workers to get out of a hole and while the foreman was arguing with him about it, the hole collapsed.

"Long Island cemetery worker killed as grave collapses on him"

Oh somehow I overlooked this initially. What a tragedy. I wonder though how many bodies they managed to recover.

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