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Buffalo has a naval museum (on the water)..along with some other military items on the land. I have been aboard thye two ships..slept overnight on the Cruiser, but never have went aboard the sub. Here is a video..don't see any credits, but I suspect the drone video is some of my son's work..he has contributed much photo work to the museum. https://buffalonavalpark.org/
Quote from: ironglow on October 17, 2022, 08:31:18 AMBuffalo has a naval museum (on the water)..along with some other military items on the land. I have been aboard thye two ships..slept overnight on the Cruiser, but never have went aboard the sub. Here is a video..don't see any credits, but I suspect the drone video is some of my son's work..he has contributed much photo work to the museum. https://buffalonavalpark.org/Those ships look like they could come to life.
A couple great Navy movies.. TORA, TORA, TORA also... IN HARM'S WAY IN HARM'S WAY... one of the last films by the great films by the great Charlton Hesston !
I have never seen a warship of any kind. Some freighters and work boats is all I have managed. I worked with a guy that had been a submariner in WWII and we became good friends. He didn't talk about the war and I never asked. He did volunteer that he was one of the one's in the liberation of the Bataan Death March survivors and had a real hate for the Japanese. He wouldn't even consider buying anything that was made in Japan. I was good friend with another and his bunch was over run somewhere in the Pacific and the had to bail out in the middle of the night without even having time to put on their boots and all of them cut their feet all to pieces running bare foot over coral. He never mentioned a word about the war all the time I knew him and the only way I found out was after he passed and my looked up his service record for his sone because he never talked to his family either. I did know that he has real dislike for Japan. He had a bunch of medals including a silver star. He always avoided being alone and I figuered it was war related but wasn't about to mention it to him. We never uncovered the reason after he was gone. There were several of those vets that kind of took me under their wing when I showed up as pretty green welder when it involved the oilfield. They are all gone and I now have a lump in my throat after typing this. I miss every one of them.
The 'Hunt For Red October'....Great Book...Mediocre Movie.....