And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those open "gun tubs" were murder on the gun crews during battles. The losses among USMC and Navy AAA gun crews was just awful, accounting for almost half of all dead and wounded fleet wide.
There were 49 of these 20 millimeter “Oerlikon” guns and 80 larger 40mm “Borfors” guns on BB-63 Battleship Missouri.
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DeleteThose open "gun tubs" were murder on the gun crews during battles. The losses among USMC and Navy AAA gun crews was just awful, accounting for almost half of all dead and wounded fleet wide.
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