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what is a destroyer like?

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” He replied that they were like a great big PT boat. I told him that a lot of those destroyers I had seen at San Diego looked like rust buckets. He said “Oh, those are old four stackers that they are fixing up, but I`m going to get you a brand new one.” Longshaw, here I come! Years later I recalled how this old geezer (about my present age) had acted, and it dawned on me he wanted the same thing. I am sure he would have gladly traded his three gold stripes for my red one, so that he could go instead of me. One of my classmates went to some kind of training at North Island and got into a TBF to do something, pulled the tripping latch on an on board torpedo and melted torpedo, TBF and all into a pile of aluminum. Torpedoes need to be in the water to keep them cooled down, as they were a high out put gas turbine. Some people will tell you that they were steam, but the vast majority of the super heated gas was air, carried in the air flask at 2800 PSI, with a little water introduced from

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