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The United States battleships Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59) and Alabama (BB-60) form a line ahead during target practice as seen from the South Dakota (BB-57)
That's funny!!Happy Birthday KMS Tirpitz! (1011 × 554) Now here's a Tallboy. Have fun
USS Cairo, one of the "city-class" Ironclads, Mississippi River, 1862. Precursors of all the "heavy metal" boats to come. Sunk by a mine in 1862 its remains are on display today at the Vicksburg National Military Park
Mt Pinatubo was a nasty one. We were involved in evacuating the Air Station personnel's dependents.Different take on "heavy metal". Volcano in Barbados blowing off a bunch of ash. I thought "ash" was like what you get when you burn wood or paper.
Naw, this stuff is pulverized rock and glass falls like snow but its heavy like rocks.
1991 Mt. Pinatubo in Philippines with ashfall on a parked DC-10 -- it fell on the engine, horizontal and vertical stabilizers, etc, and tipped the plane on its can.
source: File:DC-10-30 resting on its tail due to Pinatubo ashfall.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Mt Pinatubo was a nasty one. We were involved in evacuating the Air Station personnel's dependents.
30 January 1924, Boston Navy Yard. The first American dreadnought-type battleship USS Delaware (BB-28) is being dismantled.
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Stationed aboard USS Long Beach, CGN-9 deployed to West-Pac. We were fairly close and were one of several ships that made a couple runs loaded to the gills with Air Force dependents living at Clark Air Base which was immediately next to Pinatubo. It was an evacuation but you'd be amazed at the amount of stuff they can pack up quickly and stash on the main deck of a warship. Emptied out a few berthing compartments (mine included) of sailors (had to hot bunk with others) and filled 'em up with wives, kids, babies, etc... but at least they made the pets stay on the main deck. I don't remember where we took them, (engineering puke so we seldom knew where we were) but it was about a 2 day trip one way, then back for another load. Subic harbor was so full of ash we had to open and clean each turbine's condenser (that operated) once we left port so we had our hands full in the engine room. Ash piled up feet deep on the roofs of the buildings if the roof was still intact. No fun. I think I still have a vial or two of ash somewhere......any context on that one chief?