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.
Friday, April 23, 2021
USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives in San Francisco, 29 Sept 1945. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge.
I went under the Golden Gate Bridge quite often when I was on USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 1975-1978. We were nuclear powered, so we didn't have a stack that could lean over. We had to wait until low tide and then give the ship a hell of o turn to starboard, giving us a decent port list, to clear the bridge upon enterng the bay. Still, if you stood behind the island it looked like we were going to hit it.
USS Indiana, first ship back after Surrender in Tokyo - my uncle, Paul Botamer, Seaman Second, 3rd Division (rear 16" turret) onboard. Censors got to radar in this photo.
My dear Unknown, the radar gear shows fairly clearly, but the fuzzy-misty element of the image is the exhaust from the ship's stacks. You can see the exhaust efflux dissipating aft.
By the way, I've always loved the Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane, two of which sit on their stern catapults in this image. Oh, what the hey, I love all floatplanes, seaplanes, & flying boats!
Agree about exhaust; have a bow pic same day from GGB that is clear. Did earlier double check floatplanes which are Kingfishers - thought might have been replaced by Curtis Seahawks. One search headline read, "Kingfisher, 'Workhorse' of fleet". A puzzle of pic is lack of symmetry in 5" turret positions between port & starboard sides which have been told was normally a point of particular interest. Figure must have been a late communication breakdown between port & starboard sections about which "one turret" to point to stern. Ship otherwise looks well attended to for her homecoming.
The country that could engineer and construct such things. I was born 10 years later.
ReplyDeleteAnd now the U.S. has a submarine named the Indiana, the latest to hit the fleet, I believe.
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I went under the Golden Gate Bridge quite often when I was on USS Enterprise (CVN-65), 1975-1978. We were nuclear powered, so we didn't have a stack that could lean over. We had to wait until low tide and then give the ship a hell of o turn to starboard, giving us a decent port list, to clear the bridge upon enterng the bay. Still, if you stood behind the island it looked like we were going to hit it.
ReplyDeleteUSS Indiana, first ship back after Surrender in Tokyo - my uncle, Paul Botamer, Seaman Second, 3rd Division (rear 16" turret) onboard. Censors got to radar in this photo.
ReplyDeleteMy dear Unknown, the radar gear shows fairly clearly, but the fuzzy-misty element of the image is the exhaust from the ship's stacks. You can see the exhaust efflux dissipating aft.
DeleteBy the way, I've always loved the Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane, two of which sit on their stern catapults in this image. Oh, what the hey, I love all floatplanes, seaplanes, & flying boats!
Agree about exhaust; have a bow pic same day from GGB that is clear. Did earlier double check floatplanes which are Kingfishers - thought might have been replaced by Curtis Seahawks. One search headline read, "Kingfisher, 'Workhorse' of fleet".
DeleteA puzzle of pic is lack of symmetry in 5" turret positions between port & starboard sides which have been told was normally a point of particular interest. Figure must have been a late communication breakdown between port & starboard sections about which "one turret" to point to stern. Ship otherwise looks well attended to for her homecoming.
There are an awful lot of excited men on that ship!
ReplyDeleteYes, and that could well explain the turret misalignment!
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