Sounds like the real, live, Cap Wernher. :har:

Yea, pretty bad when the Iowa with FDR got so concerned over the dumb actions that the guns were aimed at it.

Still, minus the many unseemly events, it did serve bravely most the time.

Threads merged.

You just did this because I posted it....:O:

As if I would :hmph:

I think the final end of the Porter is truly amazing: you manage to avoid a kamikaze attack only to have the plane skim under your keel and blow you out of the water, essentially being reverse depth-charged by the plane...


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I see numerous threads that get bypassed and I ...I...get called out on one for two years ago....remembered by who else....


I filed a complaint with AVGWarhunk

my great great uncle was on the submarine K13 in 1917 ...........maybe some of the older crew were transferred she sank on trials because some one left a hatch open.

I was kind of curious about the person after whom the Porter was named, so I looked him up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Porter


Seems a bit of a shame such a capable commander should have as his only namesake a ship that is a bit of o laughingstock to the rest of the world. I say they should give another go at naming a ship after Commodore Porter...


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