Who Likes Ships? We Have Aircraft and Trains.

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PT boats?
PT boats, the real heroes of Suriago Straight. Japan's big ships could not divert course to avoid torpedoes or they would have run aground. Another disastrous decision in a string of them by their commanders. The media put the glory on our resurrected Battleships, which of course played a role, but PT boats dumped over 50 torpedoes into the sides of Japanese ships in the straight that had no choice but to steam forward in a a straight line.
You might wonder what records I am looking at for this, but I am going by the testimony given over the years from both the Japanese and American sailors from when the internet was much younger. The older I get the more I trust first hand accounts of events from the normal citizens with nothing to gain then I do the big media that does.

Our Pearl Harbor Battleships pulling off a perfect maneuver and gunning them down without taking a shot in return makes for a much better war time moral booster in the papers though

 

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The Wilmington (North Carolina) reserve fleet; nearly 700 ships were parked here after WWII. They stayed for about twenty years before being disposed of, the final ones in 1970.