TheLoneFox

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[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Went to the USS North Carolina and toured the ship. Loved it so much that I got a piece of the deck and a hat pin. #USSNorthCarolina @Lina55VT @Magi41VT

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

I may not have a brain, but I have an idea-

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

The crew that operated Texas on D-Day were Marines btw.

[🦊The SLY Silver Fox 2.0🦊 @FreedomHasWon]

6 June 1944.
D-Day.
The captain of the USS Texas flooded one side of
the ship to gain range of her big guns to help clear the way.
Bad a$$!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

This is true.

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Better photo:

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Two legends finally meet...

USS NORTH CAROLINA - BB-55

RMS TITANIC - HULL #401

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

IT'S GOT CANARDS. @HLC_actual

[The STRATCOM Bureau @OSPSF]

Thermal image of a new experimental U.S. fighter aircraft has been captured by amateur YouTubers near Area 51/Homey Airport, Nevada.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

Midway (2019) - Destroying the Akagi Scene

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

I BEG YOUR HONEST PARDON-

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

I change my assessment. She’s likely totaled.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1942, U.S. warships ambush a Japanese task force at Midway. Japan loses four carriers and nearly 250 warplanes in the ensuing battle. It's a turning point in the Pacific War.

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

@JJCooperWX @Lina55VT @Magi41VT @battleshipnc Teak Deck from WW2

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Went to the USS North Carolina and toured the ship. Loved it so much that I got a piece of the deck and a hat pin. #USSNorthCarolina @Lina55VT @Magi41VT

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Honoring the 84th Anniversary of the Battle Of Midway. May all who fell be at peace.

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Now this...THIS makes me afraid of what we Americans have now...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra captured footage of Castle Bravo — the most powerful nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.

The detonation at Bikini Atoll yielded 15 megatons, 1,000× stronger than Hiroshima.

[Sabaton @sabaton]

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[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

I'm scared of Roon-

[Floppa88 @floppa88_]

floppa love roon

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

"That's not even a big bir… OHHHH DAMN"

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

EVEN THE GUARD WAS VIBING. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS! 🇺🇲🦅

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Best thing I’ve seen all day

[TheLoneFox @DixieAlleyEAS]

Keep your eyes on the road, bud.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Liberal neighbor hates your Trump Flag.