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Rockin Robbins · 09-12-10, 08:37 PM

I'm really curious to know how they knew the hole was from an 8" as opposed to a 5" shell.... It seems to be just guesswork to me. Of course the hole can be expected to be larger than the shell itself, but how MUCH larger? How firm is that ID of an 8" shell anyway?

Now, from the wording of the Polaris article, the identification of the surviving boat must have been made after the war upon consulting Japanese records. I would trust that more than the identification of the hole as being from a 50 caliber 8" gun. How in hades can they look at a hole and say the gun was 50 caliber? I've seen some black magic around here lately but nothing quite like that!

09-12-10, 08:37 PM	#17
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I'm really curious to know how they knew the hole was from an 8" as opposed to a 5" shell.... It seems to be just guesswork to me. Of course the hole can be expected to be larger than the shell itself, but how MUCH larger? How firm is that ID of an 8" shell anyway? Now, from the wording of the Polaris article, the identification of the surviving boat must have been made after the war upon consulting Japanese records. I would trust that more than the identification of the hole as being from a 50 caliber 8" gun. How in hades can they look at a hole and say the gun was 50 caliber? I've seen some black magic around here lately but nothing quite like that! __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS