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Reply #210 on: October 22, 2018, 06:45:07 AM
We can't assume that the sailors who fired even knew where Japan is. They were probably conscripts with little to no education.

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Reply #211 on: October 22, 2018, 06:47:20 AM
Russians making up unbelievable bullshit even back then.... :idiot2:

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Reply #212 on: October 22, 2018, 09:26:49 AM

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Reply #213 on: October 22, 2018, 04:30:26 PM
We can't assume that the sailors who fired even knew where Japan is. They were probably conscripts with little to no education.

That may well apply even to the officer's who were giving orders to those sailors..................

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Reply #214 on: October 23, 2018, 12:13:17 PM
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Mothballed Ticonderoga class cruisers at Philadelphia Navy Yard



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Reply #215 on: October 24, 2018, 02:53:52 PM

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Reply #216 on: October 24, 2018, 07:00:29 PM
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/1055169222949535744

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Reply #217 on: October 24, 2018, 07:01:49 PM
Cool!  :bigthumb:

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Reply #218 on: October 30, 2018, 09:19:53 AM

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Reply #219 on: October 30, 2018, 01:09:12 PM

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Reply #220 on: November 01, 2018, 03:03:45 PM

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Reply #221 on: November 01, 2018, 07:30:02 PM

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Reply #222 on: November 02, 2018, 05:20:09 AM
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Reply #223 on: November 02, 2018, 05:21:23 AM
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French battleship Dunkerque, anchored at Spithead, May 1937. Representing France at the Grand Naval Review celebrating the coronation of King George VI



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Reply #224 on: November 02, 2018, 06:50:10 AM
Nice lines...

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