re: Pictures from days gone by....

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26-inch thick armor from a Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.


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This armor is from the Yamato’s sister ship, the Shinano. She was originally laid down as a Yamato class battleship in 1940. But before completion was converted to an aircraft carrier. She was commissioned in 1944 and sunk by an American sub only 10 days later. After the war the US took the 26” thick armor plating that had originally been intended to use on the main turrets before she was converted to a carrier. The Navy test fired an armor piercing 16” shell used in the Iowa Class main gun and this was the result.

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Holy hell look at the spalling around that hole. Darth I know you were a tank guy I remember the first time I heard about spalling that’s the stuff of nightmares.

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If you have to die in battle, dying in a tank is usually the best way to go. One second you’re there, the next you’re completely obliterated. At least that’s how it usually goes.

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26-inch thick armor from a Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun.

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That level of violence is fascinating.

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Shreveport Journal, 1928

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Shreveport Journal, March 8 1930



What's the deal w/Shreveport and snakes?

I took my youngest son there a couple of years ago on his college Christmas break. We love going to war museums together and have been to small and large ones all over the country. That ship is cool as all get out. There's all kinds of places to crawl around in that should probably be off-limits.