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Sitting on Top of the World
Sittin’ On Top of the World.” Of all things, Marine Private First Class Raymond L. Hubert, of Detroit, Michigan, chooses a huge unexploded naval shell for a sofa as he removes a three day accumulation of Saipan sand from his field shoes.
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What intrigues me more in this photo is how the shell came to be resting where it is and how it is.
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Probably not the most intelligent place to "park it".
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My guess that the Battleship that fired it was at a low elevation and the projectile bounced and ended up where it did if you look closely you can see the striations on the projie from rotating when it hit the ground a few times! Also it may or may not have had the correct timed fuse, graze fuse fitted or may have had a faulty fuse who knows but me I would steer well away from that I mean those projectiles had enough power to flip a 65 tonne Tiger tank over.
Somewhere in one of my books about artillery and also battleships they say that a 15" projie strikes with the force of @80,000 Foot Tons and that is not FPE either
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As a kid I live on Guam where my buddies and I found a 16in shell near some inhabited quonset huts near Apra Harbor. I reported it to my sister's boyfriend who was in the Navy. The Navy move everyone from that location to somewhere else and then detonated it. The hole was huge, way over my head in depth, and all the trees and 4 huts were evaporated. The Filipinos workers who were living there knew about it but had never reported it.
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Hopefully they were recompensed for their losses?
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Raymond L Hubert was born on October 17, 1924. He died in May 1988 at 63 years old.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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