Comments by "Stephen Rickstrew" (@stephenrickstrew7237) on "US NAVY'S R/V Petrel Rolls Over in Drydock In Scotland | Underwater Discoveries u0026 Archaeology" video.

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors… is well worth the read ..The story of the USS Johnson and Taffy 3 is one of the countless heroic actions of WW2
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@wgowshipping I’m sure he had a lot more books in the works ..I must read Neptune’s Inferno next ..Since I chewed on the pages of Tin can Sailors ..
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@SoloRenegade it was a shooting gallery … the Japanese steamed right into the kill zone
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No Radar either .. and the 25 mm AA was ineffective she only shot down 2 planes during her last day .. but 5 were knocked out of the sky by the blast when her magazine’s exploded
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And Hood had a chink in her armor between the Torpedo bulge and the side armor.. that’s where the fatal shot hit .. Prince of Wales had a similar issue
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