Bob Taylor <news@windstream.net> wrote in news:b551d$5473ea15$471cb75e
$11110@ALLTEL.NET:
> a425couple wrote:
>> "Joseph Testagrose" <Joet5@optonline.net> wrote in message...
>>
>> Wow! Neat, a BOBTAIL!!!
>>
>> "Nelson being towed back to Boston for repairs, after losing her stern
>> from #4 turret aft to a German E-boat torpedo on 13 June 1944, off
>> Normandy."
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nelson_%28DD-623%29
> She is also missing her forward upper turret. And I cannot make out a
> gun in the forward lower turret.
She was temporarily patched up at Londonberry, Northern Ireland where her
#2 turret and torpedo tubes were removed as a weight saving/stability
measure.
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