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Couldn’t easily find a good source for this so it could be apocryphal:
Basically the Yamato class battleships were given beehive rounds for the main battery so they could be used as (rather oversized) AA guns. However the main guns were so large that the decks had to be cleared when they were fired as the overpressure could harm the crew. This leads to a situation where AA gunners have to leave their stations mid attack so the main guns can be fired or they risked getting knocked unconscious. Seeing as both Yamato class battleships were taken out by air power this seems to have been a bad idea.

Deadset the prick goes from idolising veterans in one sentence to dismissing Hastie’s service in the next. Insane behaviour.

Feel free to delete, I just thought this was funny when the page came up for me. Uses dogshit ai descriptions too.

HMAS Melbourne was an Australian aircraft carrier of the Majestic class. During her service history she never fired a shot in anger, however in two separate incidents it collided with friendly destroyers sinking both in strangely similar circumstances.

HMAS Voyager collision:
During manoeuvres off Jervis Bay on the 10th of February 1964 HMAS Voyager cut across Melbourne’s bow resulting in Voyager being cut in two by the collision. 82 men were killed, Melbourne was damaged, and Voyager was sunk.

USS Frank E. Evans collision:
On the 3rd of June 1969 both ships were participating in exercises in the South China Sea when USS Frank E. Evans sailed under Melbourne’s bow which resulted in a collision. Evans was cut in half by the collision and sunk, 74 sailors were killed, and Melbourne was damaged.

While neither of these incidents were the fault of HMAS Melbourne it gave rise to a reputation of the ship being jinxed. The ship was eventually sold off to be scrapped by a Chinese company however it was first studied buy the Chinese government before this scrapping was carried out.

https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/have-we-always-had-liberal-and-labor-as-the-major-parties

There was Labor, the Protectionists, and the Free Trade Party. The Protectionists and Free Traders joined up in 1909 to oppose the Labor Party. The first decade of Australian politics is basically characterised by being a three horse race.

I know that site being complete dogshit is hardly news for anyone but this mistake genuinely annoyed the hell out of me.

During the Attack on Pearl Harbour Cassin Young was commanding the repair ship USS Vestal which was moored alongside the USS Arizona. When Arizona suffered its fatal magazine explosion the deck of Vestal was effectively swept clear by the blast blowing Commander Young into the water. Young then proceeded to swim back to his ship, retake command, countermand an abandon ship order which had been given in his absence, and get Vestal underway. Vestal was then beached to prevent its sinking.

Commander Young received the Medal of Honor for his actions. USS Vestal was able to be repaired and went on to carry out repair works on hundreds of ships during the war.

Swear I’m seeing posts about this in the other subreddits daily at this point. Just look at how the Oblivion remaster was done, these ones will likely be the same.

During the Norwegian campaign eight German destroyers were holed up in the Ofotfjord after the First Naval Battle of Narvik. The British were determined to defeat this force for morale and strategic reasons, to achieve this they sent HMS Warspite and nine destroyers into the tight confines of the fjord. In the ensuing melee the German destroyers were all sunk. Between both naval battles of Narvik half of all of the destroyers of the Kriegsmarine were sunk.

After the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea the survivors HMAS Perth and USS Houston attempted to withdraw to the south. By chance a Japanese invasion fleet consisting of one aircraft carrier, five cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 58 transports was also heading into the Sunda Strait at the same time. The Perth and the Houston found themselves surrounded with no hope of retreat and facing an overwhelming force had no choice but to go down fighting.

The Dutch destroyer HNLMS Eversten was also in the area at the time trying to catch up with the cruisers and was subsequently attacked and sunk.

During the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal the USS Washington, USS South Dakota, and four destroyers were sent in to intercept a Japanese resupply convoy which was being escorted by the battleship Kirishima, two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eleven destroyers. This was a precarious operation for the battleships in the shallow waters around Guadalcanal however the allied cruiser forces in the area had been whittled away during several previous engagements and the battleships were the only available ships on hand.

Basically as soon as the American Battleships made contact with the Japanese force the South Dakota experienced a massive power outage that led to it not being able to fire its main batteries. This was due to an electrician locking down a circuit breaker in an attempt to fix an issue. The South Dakota then proceeded to get lit up by Japanese searchlights and was in turn fired on by most of the Japanese force. Fortunately this served to reveal friend and foe to the Washington which was still fully operational and was merely holding fire due to not being able to identify the South Dakota as it had lost track of it in the darkness.

This resulted in the sinking of the Kirishima and the withdrawal of the Japanese force from the area. The Japanese transports were grounded in an attempt to unload their cargo however they were attacked by other allied forces when dawn broke and most of their supplies were lost, adding 2000 extra Japanese soldiers without supplies to an already precarious logistical situation.

There’s some decent videos, books, and articles on the subject. I would recommend anyone interested in the topic to look into them rather than take it from me haha.

https://youtu.be/G\_QhTdzWBJk?si=Yytle7XgA7dijmR\_

https://www.amazon.com.au/Neptunes-Inferno-James-D-Hornfischer/dp/0553385127

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/second-naval-battle-guadalcanal

During WW2 many Japanese soldiers would commit acts of cannibalism against allied soldiers, POWs, and civilians. This was often due to their poor supply situation however there were instances of them doing this when they weren’t even hungry. Instances of this were particularly common during the Kokoda Track Campaign where advancing allied forces would find remains of their fallen comrades disfigured in such a way as to confirm acts of cannibalism.

I don’t want to get too much further into details, here’s an article that covers it quite well:

https://apnews.com/article/2e7e9a8dae17cc29862c4562b44c9225

During the battle of Savo Island the HMAS Canberra was crippled by fire from Japanese cruisers. Some crew members and historical analyses claim that during the battle a stray torpedo from USS Bagley hit the Canberra. Given the unreliability of the mark 15 torpedo at the time this would’ve been incredibly unlucky.

The Canberra was eventually scuttled as she was ordered to be if she was unable to get under way by 0630 however the withdrawal of the remaining allied ships was delayed until mid afternoon.

When railways first came to Australia the separate colonies at the time decided on separate gauges for their railways due to a variety of reasons. This was almost immediately identified as a problem however it was not rectified and to this day there is still three separate gauges of railways within Australia.