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uno_universalvia http://ift.tt/1L2cxrt:Kamikaze hit the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), 11 April 1945 (the coast of Okinawa)
The plane approached the battleship at low altitude from the stern. When he touched on the speed side ending of the left wing, he spun to the left and crashed on the side, while it exploded and broke into pieces. Engine aircraft struck the board but could not punch it (the board at this point has a thickness of 37 mm of steel STS), only made a dent. Most of the debris fell into the water, but some of them scattered across the deck; due to the burning of gasoline spill, there were several small fires on the upper deck, they were quickly extinguished.
One of the guns of the Japanese aircraft struck the flame arrestor 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft machine and got stuck in it. The upper body of the Japanese pilots also throw in one of the quad Bofors installations. The next day she was buried at sea with full military honors. The crew of the battleship suffered no losses.
Since small dents on the casing does not affect the performance and capability of the battleship, they do not straighten out, and they were a kind of “battle insignia” of the ship. When in the 1980s Missouri passed reactivation and modernization of the shipyard, someone decided to make a joke and prepared a fake order for repairs to rectify these dents; It tells the lead engineer who oversaw the work, and to which this order was, his comments were “off the record” … leave everything as is.
The plane approached the battleship at low altitude from the stern. When he touched on the speed side ending of the left wing, he spun to the left and crashed on the side, while it exploded and broke into pieces. Engine aircraft struck the board but could not punch it (the board at this point has a thickness of 37 mm of steel STS), only made a dent. Most of the debris fell into the water, but some of them scattered across the deck; due to the burning of gasoline spill, there were several small fires on the upper deck, they were quickly extinguished.
One of the guns of the Japanese aircraft struck the flame arrestor 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft machine and got stuck in it. The upper body of the Japanese pilots also throw in one of the quad Bofors installations. The next day she was buried at sea with full military honors. The crew of the battleship suffered no losses.
Since small dents on the casing does not affect the performance and capability of the battleship, they do not straighten out, and they were a kind of “battle insignia” of the ship. When in the 1980s Missouri passed reactivation and modernization of the shipyard, someone decided to make a joke and prepared a fake order for repairs to rectify these dents; It tells the lead engineer who oversaw the work, and to which this order was, his comments were “off the record” … leave everything as is.
