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.
>>D.C.Usher Marine Private First Class Raymond L. Hubert, of Detroit, Michigan, chooses a huge unexploded naval shell for a sofa as he removes a three day accumulation of Saipan sand from his field shoes, 1944.<<
I'm guessing it was fired at point blank range (close, horizontal) with a low powder charge, and missed the target. Slid along the surface until it ran out of energy. Ship too close to the island.
I wore out two pairs of those boots in the 70's, both brothers were in the navy. One on a destroyer tender during Cuban missile crisis, the other career master chief.
16 inch battleship shell
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Marine Private First Class Raymond L. Hubert, of Detroit, Michigan, chooses a huge unexploded naval shell for a sofa as he removes a three day accumulation of Saipan sand from his field shoes, 1944.<<
I hope Marine Private First Class Raymond L. Hubert had a copy of that picture and was able to show it to his grandkids, if you catch my drift.
DeleteYouth and fatalism bring out a lot of stupidity.
ReplyDelete"Getting away with it" is a poor excuse.
I'm guessing it was fired at point blank range (close, horizontal) with a low powder charge, and missed the target. Slid along the surface until it ran out of energy. Ship too close to the island.
ReplyDeleteHell, that could be a Jap battleship projectile. No?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it was placed there. the shell isn’t deformed, and the sand isn’t pushed aside.
ReplyDeleteLook at his uniform, can't imagine the hell those guys went through. Sitting on a shell was probably no big deal after being in combat.
ReplyDeleteNo socks?
ReplyDeleteI've seen 16" rounds, this looks smaller, 14" maybe, from one of the old WW1 BB's they used for bombardments.
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DeleteI wore out two pairs of those boots in the 70's, both brothers were in the navy. One on a destroyer tender during Cuban missile crisis, the other career master chief.
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