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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (37108)	11/13/2000 11:30:26 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

I spent a lot of time out in the area so heard quite a few stories over beers from guys that were there in the thick of it. Saipan had been taken and US forces were getting ready to take Tinian, a sister island across a straight, which had a good airfield that was important. The same airfield from which the A-Bombs were eventually flown off of. So, they were setting up field artillery on Saipan and getting the war ships in close to begin shelling. Some of the field artillery pieces weren't designed to fire so far and the first ranging shot had such a high elevation that it came down about vertical. The main ammo dump, lord knows what all it had in it but there was an airfield, was a fortified underground affair and by some billion to one luck the shell went down an air vent. The whole ammo dump exploded in a gigantic fire ball. The shock wave was so intense it heeled over destroyers that were on station offshore. The guys I was talking to say it heeled them 30 to 35 degrees! Maybe it was really more on the order of 20 o, but none-the-less, Yikes! That is the Tinian Shot. And we need one to this market. -g-