Semper Gumby
@dbfenthusiast
DBF but in a preservation sort of way. Maritime historian and museum ship professional. Views my own.
Someone did not purchase a ticket and had to be escorted out of the building.
Absolutely heartbroken to learn of Sherry’s passing. HMCS Sackville and the museum ship community lost a real icon today. Sherry was everything you wanted from a leader and a friend. Fair winds and following seas.
It’s hard to describe really how much damage the repeated filming did to her and what they did to patch her back together was just enough to get by. These photos are from 2024 and you can already see she was well past due for any kind of love and care.
Grand opening (or reopening depending on your point of view) of the Baton Rouge African American Museum. Packed house!
Okay but why does the jolly roger graphic on the window look like some kind of dark omen in the rain?
She’s better than ever and ready to come home again as soon as the river rises.
Been on her. I need to hit Drum in Mobile now that I’m down south.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled DBF-posting. #nationalsubmarineday
Unique to KIDD’s kamikaze story is the fact we know the identity of the pilot that struck her. Sub-Lieutenant Shigehisa Yaguchi from Tsuchiura City, Ibaragi Provice, Japan was 23 years old when he guided his plane into the side of the destroyer.
At 2:10PM, the plane slammed into KIDD’s starboard side, striking her forward fire room at the waterline. This photo was taken by KIDD’s doctor, Lt, j.g. Broox Garrett just before he scrambled through the midships passage to the port side in an attempt to find safety.
Almost immediately after sounding general quarters, KIDD’s gun director “ran away in train” to her port side, forcing her 5-inch gun battery to port and unable to move as her crew tried to rectify the problem.
KIDD was operating with DesDiv 96, which included the destroyers CHAUNCEY, BULLARD, and BLACK. DesDiv 96’s picket station was 25 miles north of the task group, approximately 80 miles northeast of Okinawa.
Nightmare off Okinawa- on April 11, 1945, while performing radar picket duties for Task Force 58, Fletcher-class destroyer USS KIDD (DD-661) was struck by a kamikaze. 🧵 👇 #NavalHistory #WWII #MuseumShips
The Lost 52 Project has recently discovered 4 notable WWII shipwrecks including the Japanese merchantman Konzan Maru #NavalHistory