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Roy Forbes

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Roy Forbes  Posted on: Sep 3, 2013 - 7:22pm
Right on Ted. Finally conformation to my original post. Ooh Rah for the PTs ! Now I would have named that boat "First Blood"

OK Jerry.... lets go....

Dave, here are a bunch of awesome photos I found of the 5th sub taken during several of the Hurl dives. This is an awesome site with a bunch of great info on the subject.

http://i-16tou.com/hurl/

Do you know if the West Loch is open to the general public.




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Tracy White

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message   Posted on: Sep 4, 2013 - 8:46pm
It's not.

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David Buck

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of David Buck   Send Email To David Buck Posted on: Sep 5, 2013 - 4:40am
Thanks Roy that's one of the sites that I have visited to help answer a number of questions that I had.

As to West Loch Tracy is correct, there are a number of reasons for this but the main thing is that it is closed.

Tracy, good luck with your other areas of research.

Yours,

D.buck

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David Aiken

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Burl Burlingame authored his ADVANCE FORCE treatise on the midget subs of Pearl Harbor....and asked me to review the text...and noted my additions.

Further, before the final printing, he cited an addition to me when he and I met again at the 50th Anniversary activities. This addition was the midget firing on BB Row. I suggested that he really review his sources. He went ahead and printed that item.

The Park Service supported this addition later with a huge press conference.

The hunt for the WARD and ST LOUIS midgets was on going.

A rare few folks that had viewed the source material suggested that the midget CO be awarded a high US Medal for racing into the harbor...given the launch times and launch corrdinants of the midgets... making a 180 degree turn in the shallow South East Loch in the MIDST of the aerial torpedo attack THUS during that turn, absorbed the hits by any aerial torpedo from hitting BB Row. Heroic at best.

Cheers,
David Aiken

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David Aiken,
a Director: Pearl Harbor History Associates, Inc.
http://www.pearlharbor-history.org/

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Roy Forbes

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If anyone is interested in further reading on the Pearl Harbor Mini-Subs, Sea Classics magazine has a good article in the July 2013 issue on the debate.


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Tracy White

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message   Posted on: Oct 11, 2013 - 5:33pm
I'm always up for a good chuckle - I'll try and find a back issue.

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