Naval thread I visited pear harbor today, I went aboard a WW2

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>>34202959
Pearl* excuse my retardation

>>34202959

Are they still doing work on the superstructure or is the scaffolding gone now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBHnwrZwVg

Last I checked it was going to be until September at least.

Too bad that the Overnight Encampment is only grades 5-12. I'm sure a lot of /k/ommandos would love to spend the night on her. Only way now is for you to be a chaperone for a youth group.

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>I moved cautiously, feeling my way with ungloved hands toward the starboard bulkhead in the compartment, which was my starting point. What I would find I had no inkling. Eventually, it would severely draw on every ounce of courage I possessed. As I looked up, I saw a light that glowed dimly, flickered, and disappeared. It must have been phosphorescence in the water, I thought as the blackness enveloped me once again. I shrugged as I thought: I would settle for just enough light to be able to see the end of my nose.

>Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong. I tried to suppress the strange feeling that I was not alone. I reached out to feel my way and touched what seemed to be a large inflated bag floating on the overhead. As I pushed it away, my bare hand plunged through what felt like a mass of rotted sponge. I realized with horror that the “bag” was a body without a head.

>Gritting my teeth, I shoved the corpse as hard as I could. As it drifted away, its fleshless fingers raked across my rubberized suit, almost as if the dead sailor were reaching out to me in a silent cry for help.

>I fought to choke down the bile that rose in my throat. That bloated torso had once contained viscera, muscle, and firm tissue. It had been a man. I could hear the quickening thump of my pulse.

>For the first time I felt confined in the suffocating darkness and had to suppress the desire to escape. “Breathe slowly, breathe deeply,” I commanded myself. I must stay calm, professional, detached. The dangers from falling wreckage, holes in the deck, and knife-sharp jagged edges were real, formidable hazards. I must not succumb to terror over something that could not harm me.

>>34204494
>I felt my way through the darkness toward the door to the machine shop, accompanied only by the sound of the air hissing into my helmet from the air hose trailing behind me.

>At the shop doorway I hesitated and drew my lifeline toward me. Then I got the eerie feeling again that I wasn’t alone. Something was near. I felt the body floating above me. Soon the overhead was filled with floating forms.

>Obviously, my movement through the water created a suction effect that drew the floating masses to me. Their skeletal fingers brushed across my copper helmet. The sound reminded me of the tinkle of oriental wind chimes.

>This time I did not panic. Instead, I gently pushed the bodies clear and moved through the compartment. I shuffled through the workshop area, threading my way around lathes, milling machines, and drill presses. I stopped and again found myself surrounded by ghostly bloated forms floating on the overhead, all without heads. This shop had been the damage control battle station for one hundred of the crew. The violent explosions from bombs and torpedoes, plus the forceful impact of water, must have thrown the sailors like rag dolls against bulkheads, breaking their necks and severing skulls from spines. Voracious scavenger crabs had finished the job.

>It was not something I wanted to think about, and I pushed it from my mind as I moved forward again. That is when I stumbled over what felt like a torpedo, the object I had come down here to find.

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>>34202959
Why didn't japs utilize their bad ass Long Lance torpedo?

Asa far as i know, except for battle of Tassafaronga where IJN sucessfully torpedoed US warships in a surprise attack at night, they didn't.

>>34204907
Too big for planes. Variation was used at PH in their minisubs, though.

>>34204471
>Too bad that the Overnight Encampment is only grades 5-12. I'm sure a lot of /k/ommandos would love to spend the night on her.
Pretty sure plenty of 12 year olds post on /k/.

>>34204494
>>34204496
>my movement through the water created a suction effect that drew the floating masses to me. Their skeletal fingers brushed across my copper helmet. The sound reminded me of the tinkle of oriental wind chimes.

Holy hell.

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>>34202959
>3b€ for 4 giant coast guard ships

>>34202959
>seeing the thing bristle with 5 inch and 16 inch guns.

It's a real shame they didn't keep her WWII/Korean War configuration

>>34206064
Those divers had balls of steel. Not just dealing with death but shit like cutting into the battleship magazines and having no choice but to set off explosions of fuel oil fumes and unburned pockets of gases from their torches, the only solution was to cut slowly and hope for smaller explosions that didn't knock you unconscious but otherwise bracing for them during the entire four hour dive.

>>34206108

Lots of sustainment kit - a ship being away from home port for two years is a long time.

>>34206863
we will see if she can actually do that. Lots of shit going on that isn't public yet

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>"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

Named for Coxswain Samuel Booker Roberts, Jr., who was killed when he voluntarily and of his oan volition drove his Higgins boat back and forth in front of Japanese forces as a distraction so that the marines could be evacuated from Guadelcana, USS Samuel B Roberts DE-413 faced off against 23 Japanese ships, including the Yamato. Before being sunk, she expended all torpedoes and 599 5-inch shells. She only carried 600. 120 of the ship's 215 sailor complement survived, including Jack Butler, Samuel's younger brother.