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The Reference Desk => History and Tall Tales => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on April 20, 2019, 05:53:30 PM
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-us-navy-sunk-imperial-japans-top-secret-aircraft-carrier-53352
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That is very interesting. I'd not heard of that ship before.
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Admiral Charley Lockwood produced the television show, Silent Service. He wanted to ensure that the work of his submariners was not forgotten.
Here is the episode on Archerfish and Joe Enright. The captain may be familiar to most Dragoons.
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Another carrier sunk by a submarine was Shokako.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksink.htm
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Another carrier sunk by a submarine was Shokako.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksink.htm
Another was the USN Block Island, sunk not by an IJN sub but by a U-boot.
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Is that DeForest Kelley? :o
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If so, it would be the only other thing besides Star Trek I've ever seen him in. The first was the gloriously bad mutant-rabbit scifi film 'Night of the Lepus'.
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Night of the Lepus is all kinds of amazing!
...if you watch the Rifftrax version of course
https://www.rifftrax.com/night-of-the-lepus
More on topic, has anyone ever read Shinano!?
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^ you mean this?
https://www.amazon.com/Shinano-Sinking-Japans-Secret-Supership/dp/0312909675
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If so, it would be the only other thing besides Star Trek I've ever seen him in. The first was the gloriously bad mutant-rabbit scifi film 'Night of the Lepus'.
He was in an older episode of Wild Wild West, too
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If so, it would be the only other thing besides Star Trek I've ever seen him in. The first was the gloriously bad mutant-rabbit scifi film 'Night of the Lepus'.
He was in an older episode of Wild Wild West, too
Oddly, he bears a passing resemblance to Ross Martin as well... ???
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Dee Kelly was in a lot of westerns and a regular on television series.
I know he was in a Henry Ford western, Warlock, and a couple of Untouchable episodes. Think he met Leonard Nimoy on that show.
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I watched Warlock the other day. DeForest played the role of Curley in it. Great movie.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-us-navy-sunk-imperial-japans-top-secret-aircraft-carrier-53352
Good write-up.
I first read an article about the Shinano and her sinking when I was 11-12 years old. The story has always stuck with me, at least in part because of the unusual decision of the High Command to switch from building a battleship to a carrier mid-construction.
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The story has always stuck with me, at least in part because of the unusual decision of the High Command to switch from building a battleship to a carrier mid-construction.
I could be misremembering, but I thought I read somewhere that the IJN wasn't actually planning to send the Shinano into combat right away but first use it as a kind of defended aircraft ferry to get land-based planes out to beleaguered Japanese territories that were running critically low on airframes due to attrition.
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^ you mean this?
https://www.amazon.com/Shinano-Sinking-Japans-Secret-Supership/dp/0312909675
Yes, exactly that.