| Another example of inequality!
18.
The drenching gunfire of the US ships was overwhelming but not always accurate. It was estimated that one in ten shells hit targets during naval battles.
(Shropshire's effectively hit one in two shells) .
19.
HMAS Shropshire requested permission to sink a damaged Japanese destroyer - denied - 2 light USN cruisers did the job, the Denver and Columbia.
20.
Strike force formed up to attack Japanese fleet to the north of Leyte Gulf. Only Shropshire Involved and to be used as a "decoy"? Supported by 2 destroyers or 2 cruisers?
21. What the Japanese did not know.
The US ships were down to less than 20% of their ammunition/fuel/supplies after the Tacloban landings. HMAS Shropshire still had a full load because Captain Nichols through Commander Bracegirdle our "Guns" had overloaded our 8'' magazines from normal 1500 to 2000 shells.
__________________ Spidge,
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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