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[A. F Medic]

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[Bill Hollinger]

I think they both will still shoot!!! What are the odds?

[A. F Medic]

Ship is the USS Missouri...

[frankderrico]

Thanks Medic, I have herd of all kinds of oddities concerning Kamakazees. Such as finding remains weeks and months after the attack. One of my uncles was a Sailor on an LST and survived two attacks. One when the plane hit on a bounce and didn't expode, and one when two planes coming in for an attack veered off over the island (maybe had second thoughts?) He said that every ship and boat would have every gun firing at the incoming plane, that his LST had extra 50's mounted were they could, and they would weld stops on the sides so as not to swing into one of their other gun batteries. He was on one of the 50's and said he had the HMG bouncing off the stop but kept firing even though he couldn't hit the plane. That is how intense the moment was. He said they were totally exhausted after the battles.....Frank

[TANKER]

Didn't anyone notice that the "machine gun" lodged in the Bofor's barrels ....Is a US 50 caliber machine gun?!!! It's upside down and missing it's spade grips and backplate, and somehow got separated from it's mount without damaging the ears for the T&E mechanism? Somehow I don't think that this is the MG from a Japanese Kamikazi's aircraft?

[jmoore]

I can only guess that to get the "FOD" in (or through) the 40mm flash hider, it was high velocity debris from a HE blast. Perhaps it was already stripped. OR it was replaced after the fact, once the excitement had died down and had already been rendered down partially.

Don't think an aircraft's velocity would have been anywhere near high enough.

[TANKER]

Well, however it got there.....it wasn't pleasant for someone! That would ruin any gunner's day. I once had an RPG to hit the Xenon searchlight on my tank in Nam....I only got a tiny piece of shrapnel in my thumb, but the searchlight sort of ceased to exist! TANKER

[s_henessee]

I think it got there via Photo Shop....

[lboos]

photo shop.

[mosinmauser]

Definitely photoshop and someone with too much time!