Posted by Ultradog MN on July 25, 2017 at 04:13:45 from (172.58.84.216):
The battleship Colorado was too old and slow to run with the big boys in WWII. But she found her place as a gun platform for pre invasion shore bombardment on several major landings in the Pacific. After the conquest of Saipan in 7/44 the Navy moved on to Tinian and Guam which were the next islands to be wrested from the Japanese in the Marianas. On 7/25/44 while pounding Tinian an unknown battery of six 6" British guns that the Japanese had moved there after their conquest of Singapore opened up. The Japanese gunners were Good, hammering the Colorado with 22 hits in just a few minutes and causing major damage. But once the Colorado got their location her 16" guns will pound the Japanese guns into oblivion in short order. Tonight, Colorado will sail the short distance to Saipan, tend to her 244 wounded men and bury her 39 dead, patch things up a bit and be back on the Tinian firing line by morning. Nice little read about this not so famous but worthy American battleship at the link below.
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