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Author Topic: Smoker on USS Arizona  (Read 2230 times)

besilarius

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on: September 21, 2019, 08:00:17 AM
Keeping the crew entertained and building espirit de corps was an important part of the captains responsibility.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/smoker-sat-july-27-1918-uss-arizona.html

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"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.