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Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) Canyon Software
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:41:49 -0500
Hi Chris,

Not only terrifying, but deadly.  My uncle was killed in such an attack on 
the USS Franklin in the South Pacific during WWII.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) Canyon Software


> That must have been terrifying: Kamikaze attacks.
>
> Alastair MacLean's stories were great for adolescents, me included, but 
> they were always so OTT with the hero's heroism and staying power. 
> However, I'd be quite happy to read another one.
>
> Chris
>
> On 26 May 2011, at 12:16, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> When in Charleston, SC, years ago, I visited the riverside park where 
>> they have an old diesel submarine, a WWII destroyer and a WWII aircraft 
>> carrier. I'm too lazy to look up their names. The destroyer was famous 
>> for having taken the greatest number of kamikaze hits in the Pacific, and 
>> I was blown away (oops!) by how small it was. When the sailors called 
>> them tin cans, they weren't kidding. Don't know how it could have taken 
>> one hit and stayed afloat, much less multiple.
>>
>> One of my favorite books growing up was Alistair Maclean's HMS Ulysses. 
>> Can't recall it it was a destroyer or a cruiser, though.
>
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