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.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Sixteen inch aft gun turret from the Japanese Battleship Mutsu, raised during salvage operations in 1970
Sunk by explosion while dockside 1943. Sabotage by a disgruntled crewman. While no individual was named in the commission's final report, its conclusion was that the cause of the explosion was most likely a crewman in No. 3 turret who had recently been accused of theft and was believed to be suicidal. 1,121 killed.
Sunk by explosion while dockside 1943. Sabotage by a disgruntled crewman. While no individual was named in the commission's final report, its conclusion was that the cause of the explosion was most likely a crewman in No. 3 turret who had recently been accused of theft and was believed to be suicidal. 1,121 killed.
ReplyDeleteIs that the range finder built into the turret?
ReplyDeleteAt least it wasn't destroyed by a disgruntled fecal pusher
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