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The SFW image thread

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The overturned wreck of the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), which capsized after taking 3 torpedo hits in rapid succession in the opening moments of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, followed by two more as she was starting to roll over. In all, 429 members of her crew died in the sinking, including a number who were trapped in the wreck, despite heroic efforts that rescued 32 sailors through holes cut in the hull.

Oklahoma was refloated in late 1943, but given the condition of the ship and the the state of the war, it was decided that she was not worth the effort to repair and return her to service. In 1947, the hulk of Oklahoma sank in a storm while being towed to a California scrapyard.

The battleship visible in the background of the picture is Maryland (BB-46).
 
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USS Nevada (BB-36) on fire and aground in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Nevada was the only battleship anchored at Pearl Harbor to get underway during the Japanese attack, which caused her to be singled out for attention by the Japanese pilots. In some danger of sinking after being hit by a torpedo and at least six bombs, which had started massive fires, Nevada was ordered to beach herself to avoid any risk of her sinking in a position where she would have blocked the harbor entrance.

Full repairs were combined with a major modernization, which would keep Nevada in the shipyard until late October, 1942. After returning to service, Nevada participated in operations in the Aleutians before being transferred to the Atlantic, where she was used to escort troop convoys, as well as providing gunfire support to the invasions of Normandy and Southern France, before undergoing a refit and returning to the Pacific to take part in the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Interestingly, during the refit that took place prior to her return to the Pacific, three worn-out 14" guns were replaced by guns of the same type that had been salvaged from the wreck of Arizona and overhauled.

At the end of World War II, Nevada was deemed to be too old and outdated to be worth retaining in the post-war Navy, and therefore was selected as one of the target ships to be used in the 1946 Bikini Island nuclear tests intended to determine the effects of a nuclear blast on ships. Although Nevada survived the blasts and was still technically operational, she was so heavily contaminated with radiation that any crew aboard her or attempting to man her afterwards would likely have suffered a fatal case of radiation poisoning in short order. The radioactive hulk was towed back to Pearl Harbor for detailed examination and a series of unsuccessful decontamination experiments, before being towed out to sea and sunk as a target in July, 1948.

The tugboat somewhat visible off Nevada's port bow, assisting with efforts to fight the fires on the battleship is USS Hoga (YT-146), which is one of two vessels present during the attack to survive to this day, on display as part Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum in Little Rock. (The other extant Pearl Harbor veteran is the Coast Guard cutter Taney, a museum ship in Baltimore.)
 
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USS West Virginia (BB-48) laying on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, after being sunk by 7 torpedo hits during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, and would have capsized like Oklahoma did if not for rapid and heroic damage control efforts by her crew. Somewhat ironically, West Virginia was one of the first ships of the US Navy to be fitted with radar, a CXAM-1 search radar, whose antenna, mounted on the foretop, is visible in this picture, but the set was not yet operational on December 7.

It would take 6 months for West Virginia to be refloated, and another year of emergency repairs before the battleship was seaworthy enough to sail for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for permanent repairs, which combined with an extensive modernization, took another year in the shipyard, and it was not until the middle of July, 1944 before West Virginia was ready for combat operations, the last of the battleships damaged at Pearl Harbor to be returned to service.

The battleship next to West Virginia is Tennessee (BB-43), which was only moderately damaged in the Japanese attack, being shielded from torpedoes by West Virginia to port and a pair of mooring quays to starboard, though one bomb hit did knock out Turret 2 and another disabled one gun of Turret 3, while burning wreckage and fuel oil from Arizona caused substantial fire damage to Tennessee's stern. However, Tennessee was trapped at her berth for several days, being pinned between the sunken West Virginia and the mooring quays until the quays were demolished. Repairs to Tennessee as well as some equipment upgrades required nearly 2 months in the shipyard.

In addition, part of the overturned hull of Oklahoma (BB-37) can be seen in the foreground.
 
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USS California (BB-44) listing to port after being hit during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Although California was only hit by two torpedoes, almost all the hatches and other access panels inside the ship were open in preparation for an inspection scheduled for the next day, combined with smoke and fires caused by two bomb hits, made it impossible for the crew to control flooding, and efforts to keep the ship afloat had to be abandoned within a few hours, although it took 3 days for the stricken battleship to fully settle on the bottom. Refloated in March 1942, California was patched up enough to make it to a West Coast naval shipyard by that June, for full repairs, combined with an extensive modernization that would take another year and a half to complete.
 
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A still from a film taken during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, showing the destruction of the battleship Arizona (BB-39) with the loss of 1,177 of her crew, as a result of her forward magazines exploding from a hit from an armor-piercing bomb converted from a battleship shell.
 
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A view of the interior of the USS Arizona Memorial, built over where the wreck of the battleship lies, showing a wall where the names of the 1,177 officers and men of her crew that were lost with their ship are inscribed.
 
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This map was prepared by Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida, IJN, the air group commander of the carrier Akagi, who led the first wave of strike aircraft in the attack on Pearl Harbor, as part of a battle damage assessment and after-action report about the attack.
 
Fenrisfir said:
Depends If it is too big it will hurt and if it is to small You'll hit every button at once. Not to mention it might collapse in your hands when you try to use as a controller. Then there is the issue with a sore wrist depending on the mouse size of things.
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I wasn't talking about the size, I was talking about:
a) the shape of the handles: the edge looks like it'd be uncomfortable on the hand, they're too short and leave the sticks awkwardly placed.
b) The depth of the face buttons and arrows
c) all the L & R buttons: top looks too big, bottom too small and awkward.
 
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I wasn't talking about the size, I was talking about:
a) the shape of the handles: the edge looks like it'd be uncomfortable on the hand, they're too short and leave the sticks awkwardly placed.
b) The depth of the face buttons and arrows
c) all the L & R buttons: top looks too big, bottom too small and awkward.
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Yea I definitely agree with that observation the only thing on the entire thing that looks decent is the Mouse mode and even then I would not buy it.
 
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