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To: TigerPaw who wrote (244266)	4/1/2002 10:39:41 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769670

You are right about the Northampton being featured in a Wouck novel, although I think it was one of the sequels. The real ship was a heavy cruiser. We have a picture of it cruising out of Pearl with Diamond Head in the background. Dad said you could steer it from three different stations, each successively deeper in the ship, so as to allow steerage in case of damage. Unfortunately, she was lost two years before I was born. My dad was a Marine. He drove the Admiral's gig and was a gunpointer. You get a whole stack of "Get out of a vacant liberal mind insult" cards for that link. I deeply appreciate it. Thank you. Maybe I will build that model after I retire. It would look great next to the photo at our Flathead Lake place in Montana. Dad was a terrible packrat. He had a piece of teak from its deck. The teak was taken up when it became obvious that war was imminent. I wonder if his piece still exists. He also had a half dozen silhouette models of ships that were used to train sailors to recognize different kinds of ships. You may be able to see them at Fort Missoula Naval Reserve headquarters. We took them over when he left Missoula. He also had lead dummy bombs that he used when he was a navigator bombardier on a PBJ, the Marine equivalent of a B-25, and some plexiglass from the nose compartment of one. It's probably still in the basement of our first house in Missoula. When I was a kid I had to fill the hopper with coal in that house. In the coal room Dad had his sheepskin flightsuit hanging on the wall. In the dim light of a 25 watt bulb, it looked like a monster to me. I was terrified. Anyway, Tiger Paw, thanks for the memories. I must be getting Alzheimer's because I'll be darned if I can remember providing a link about Pearl Harbor.