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Old 04-08-07, 02:29 AM   #10
stinger503
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Here's a picture of the S.S. Ohio- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...5/The_ohio.jpg

And as for the Aaron Ward it received no torpedoes. Many kamikazes however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Aaron_Ward_%28DM-34%29 is her story but I'll just put the final paragraph in.

She still had one ordeal, however, to suffer. Just after 1920, a final bomb-laden tormentor made a high-speed, low-level approach and crashed into the base of her number 2 stack. The explosion blew the plane, the stack, searchlight, and two gun mounts into the air, and they all came to rest strewn across the deck aft of stack number 1. Through the night, her crew fought to save the ship. At 2106, USS Shannon arrived and took Aaron Ward in tow. Early on the morning of May 4, she arrived at Kerama Retto where she began temporary repairs. She remained there until June 11 when she got underway for the US.
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