Battle Ship Yamato

[AlaskaProf]

This discussion thread mentions the Battle Off Savo Island

I think you are thinking of "the action off Samar." Savo Island is far away.

 

[NCheaven]

Name correction: Commander Ernest E. Evans.

 

[dannc]

Greetings,
Mr. d. "...that I found, somehow, during the lock down." Somehow??? Ya. Right. You were surfing just like a lot of us (I'm presuming).

I'm pretty sure it was somewhat similar to looking up a video on...How to adjust your lawn mower, perhaps, and two hours later your watching a 99 year old Jamaican give a lesson on mending fishing nets or the "Origins of Competition Log Rolling in Moldavia." Been there. Done that.

Actually, I was not surfing.

Much of what I watch on YouTube is on our SmartTV. While we can search for content on YoutTube, and do from time to time, but we mostly watch the shows that YouTube thinks we will be interested.

YouTube showed us the USS NC, USS NJ, and Drachinifel channels. I suspect The History Guy just popped up as well.

We do not sign in to YouTube on the TV so the content that we are shown is based on what we watch on the TV, and not what we watch on the computer or websites we visit.

Kinda scary how good YouTube is at picking what we want to watch. :lol:

Later,
Dan

 

[dannc]

I think you are thinking of "the action off Samar." Savo Island is far away.

Yep. The US won at Samar but the allies got the poo kicked out of them at the Battle of Savo Island, which I always "translate" to Salvo.

What the US forces did at Samar is amazing.

Growing up, I read history and fiction, mostly science fiction, but eventually, just read history. If people wrote fictional book,s regarding what people REALLY did, the stories would not be believed. Patrick O'Brian did this in his Aubrey–Maturin series by weaving history and real people into his novels. I read some of these series but eventually read some history of the time period, which was familiar because of what I read in O'Brian's books.

One can make stuff up, but often, what really happened, is far more unreal and amazing than some fictional story an author created.

Later,
Dan

 

[slowgoesit]

Patrick O'Brian did this in his Aubrey–Maturin series by weaving history and real people into his novels. I read some of these series but eventually read some history of the time period, which was familiar because of what I read in O'Brian's books.

One can make stuff up, but often, what really happened, is far more unreal and amazing than some fictional story an author created.

Later,
Dan

Dan, I appreciated O'Brian's books, but have always thought that CS Forester did a better job in the Hornblower series.

 

[dannc]

Dan, I appreciated O'Brian's books, but have always thought that CS Forester did a better job in the Hornblower series.

I read the Hornblower series when I was a kid and the O' Brian's books as an adult. I liked O' Brian's books better, but having said that, I read all of the Hornblower series and only a third to a half of O' Brian's series.

The Gregory Peck Hornblower movie was pretty good but the A&E Hornblower series was excellent. We bought the series. A&E back then was about Arts and Entertainment and the Hornblower and Nero Wolfe series were some of the best things on TV. Which means both series were canceled well before their time.

The Master and Commander movie, based on O' Brian's books, was excellent too, and I hoped that they would make more movies, but figured it was not likely.

Later,
Dan

 

[dannc]

I know Mr Firefly, yet another TV series that was excellent and canceled way to early, might not believe me....

But yesterday, another video popped up on YouTube. The video was about the Gulf War and I think it was shown to me because it was about the USS Missouri since I have been watching channels about the USS NJ and USS NC. After that video, up popped a video on The Battle of Salvo, err, Savo Island, that has been mentioned a few times.

The video has a commercial in the first 1:15ish which is easy to skip. The video has some very nice graphics which helps show the battle. Wish I had these AND Google Earth when I was reading history decades ago. Having maps makes it soooo much better in understanding what was happening and why.

Later,
Dan