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Caribou gorn |
Quinn says it happened in June... I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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Quinn is mistaken. | |||
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Quinn may be inaccurate, but that's the best scene in Jaws. Watch the expression on Dreyfuss' face. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Caribou gorn |
Indeed, one of the best scenes ever period. I love "I'll never put on a life jacket again." *and his name is Quint, which I'm not sure I ever knew. Anyways, the thread is about the USS Indianapolis and what an amazing story. 2 weeks later, war's over. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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Yep... Quint. And apology for slight thread drift. The treatment of Captain McVey after the sinking was inexcusable End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Just don't watch the Nicholas Cage movie. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
The war was over 2 weeks later specifically because of the Indianapolis. On July 26th, 4 days prior to their sinking, they had delivered a load of atomic bomb parts and enriched uranium to Tinian. Those components were used to assemble "Little Boy", the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th. | |||
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| Caribou gorn |
oh yeah? I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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Did another ship deliver parts for "Fat Man>?" dropped on Nagasaki? If so, it's been overshadowed by the Indianapolis sinking. | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Most of "Fat Man" was assembled stateside, then flown on a B-29 to Tinian. The plutonium core and initiator were flown to Tinian on a separate C-54 transport plane. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
If you ever want to read about it, get the book "In Harm's Way," I highly recommend it. It's enough to make a grown man weep reading about the hardships those men went through. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| The Constable |
I enjoy that scene...Very well done and very powerful. I had an Uncle who had to abandon ship during the battle of The Coral Sea....He said they lost some men to sharks. I couldn't imagine the terror and helplessness of being in that situation. | |||
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Resident Undertaker |
There is a new book out on the Indianapolis sinking. I thought it was well written. Last year the wife and I went to Texas to watch the O's play the Rangers. At the airport for the trip home I met Cleatus Lebow, who was a survivor of the sinking and is quoted several times in the new book. John The key to enforcement is to punish the violator, not an inanimate object. The punishment of inanimate objects for the commission of a crime or carelessness is an affront to stupidity. | |||
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| Official Space Nerd |
What's the new book? I have 3-4 books on the Indy, but only read In Harm's Way so far. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Doesn't matter how accurate the story is... that is still one of the best scenes ever in a movie. Robert Shaw nailed it. My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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Robert Shaw reportedly was so drunk filming this scene that if he said “1918” it wouldn’t have surprised anyone. | |||
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