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Fletcher class destroyers ... without question the finest destroyers of Would War Ii ... fast, good sea-keepers, 5 5/38 guns plus various configurations of AA ... torpedoes, depth charges ... radar .... 36 knots is over 40 mph through the water. Introduced to intense combat in The Slot when we landed at Guadalcanal. One Fletcher shot down 23 Kamikazis off of Okinawa in one day ... three crashed into her in their suicide dives, but she lived. After all, she was a Fletcher.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:19:58 +0000

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