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#2,351
#2,351
Orangeslice13 said:
That was my grandfathers navy issue MP revolver
He served in Pearl Harbor in WW2.
Yes he was there
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My gramps was an engineer and served in the pacific in the seabee's as a cap'n. Prob didn't have a sidearm issue. They didn't have to fight. He did run with the TVA after the navy and had both retirements.
 
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#2,356
Tin Man said:
An M1917? These were produced to use the 45 ACP of the 1911. If so, do you have the half moon clips for extracting the spent cartridges (before they produced rimmed cartridges for them)?
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You want a rim job from TFG ? Gross!
 
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#2,364
#2,364
According to War History Online, Stratton, who worked one of the five anti-aircraft guns on the warship, suffered third-degree burns when he caught fire after the U.S.S. Arizona was “torpedoed” during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.A sailor on a nearby ship threw a rope across to the U.S.S. Arizona and Stratton managed to evacuate the battleship by climbing hand-over-hand along 80 feet of rope, with the burns on his hands and arms making it even more difficult.
 
#2,365
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rocytop2624 said:
It was killed by a torpedo sank after that.
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On 7 December 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Arizona was hit by several air-dropped armor-piercing bombs. One detonated an explosive-filled magazine, sinking the battleship and killing 1,177 of its officers and crewmen.
Granted, Wiki is by no means perfect, but for general stuff like this, it’s pretty reliable.

—This is better (US Navy site):
USS Arizona (BB-39) was moored inboard of the repair ship Vestal (AR-4) when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. Early reports claimed that she had been hit by one torpedo in the first part of the action. However, this appears not to have been the case, and the destruction of the ship was entirely the work of Japanese horizontal bombers, which struck her with several bombs. Some of these caused damage to her after and midships areas, but their effects were minor compared with what resulted from one that penetrated beside her forward turrets.
USS Arizona During the Pearl Harbor Attack
 
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#2,367
rocytop2624 said:
According to War History Online, Stratton, who worked one of the five anti-aircraft guns on the warship, suffered third-degree burns when he caught fire after the U.S.S. Arizona was “torpedoed” during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.A sailor on a nearby ship threw a rope across to the U.S.S. Arizona and Stratton managed to evacuate the battleship by climbing hand-over-hand along 80 feet of rope, with the burns on his hands and arms making it even more difficult.
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Yeah, I’m sticking with the history.navy.mil citation.
 
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#2,368
rocytop2624 said:
Did he survive it?
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Yes he survived.
He was in the crows nest.
Said a dive bomber did it in.
Swam off the boat when it went on its side. It then righted itself as it sank. He went through an unimaginable hell getting to land from there and told me half the story one time.
As an old man in his early 80s he still couldn’t talk about it
 
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I want one.



Not normally for any fire arm that isn't of more useful utility, but for this I would make an exception if I could get a decent ammo supply.
 
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