Just a trans gal that's autistically obsessed with ships.
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10/15/45: 80 years ago today, USS England (DE-635/APD-41) was decommissioned after one year, ten months, and six days in service. She'll never be recommissioned. Lt. Cmdr. LeBoutillier's final entry was short, but poignant:
"Decommissioned this date. This is the last War Diary."
11/9/44: Before the repair party from Manilla can get to work, there's a bigger problem: By this point, both American and Japanese forces have failed to kill Kumano, despite their best efforts. So the universe then decided, "Why not give Mother Nature a go?"
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For the past few days, a typhoon had been brewing in the area, a Category 1 storm cell which I believe is only known as Typhoon 19. Beginning on the 9th, it struck Santa Cruz. Facing 90 mph winds, Kumano's crew secured their ship the best they could.
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11/8/44: Repair crews from Manilla, probably the very same ones that worked on her just days before, were brought up to Santa Cruz to help with Kumano's repairs, since Santa Cruz wouldn't have the personnel or facilities to repair her damage.
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Reminder that Texas lawmakers tried to make it a FELONY to be trans in the state
I'm visiting family in South Carolina and went to Fort Sumter today. Was super cool, but they only give you an hour to explore it, and you honestly need at least another half hour if you want to see and read everything.
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11/7/44: Somehow, Kumano and her saviors made it through the night and proceeding day without issue, and safely reached Santa Cruz at 1500, where the rest of MA-TA 31 was already waiting. But Kumano obviously wouldn't be going anywhere, in her condition.
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11/6/44: At dawn, the convoy leaves Santa Cruz to continue its journey. But at around 0715, the Gato-class submarine USS Guitarro (SS-363) was patrolling off the west coast of Luzon near Dasol Bay, when she sighted smoke and masts from the convoy off in the distance.
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By 1718 that evening Doryo Maru was getting ready to tow Kumano by the stern, and an hour later she was underway with the cruiser in tow, only able to proceed at an agonizingly slow 2 knots as they set course to link back up with MA-TA 31 in Santa Cruz.
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