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When I checked the date of the photo's, then the destroyer's hull numbers, I realized that these photo's were taken the week before the same DD's went up on the rocks of Honda. Besides some incredibly good war game shots, there were photo's of four pipers. One day I received a photo book of sepia prints from the twenties that had belonged to someones grandfather. At one Naval museum I worked (Bremmerton) we used to get boxes whenever someone cleaned out the basement. always makes me wonder what other treasures are tucked away in closets that have yet to be discovered. They probably left the props in one, known position so it was obvious that the props had been turned. B-29s had the largest engines deployed up to that point and the engines were marginal enough already, so hand cranking the props were a fairly standard procedure for the ground crew. This pumps some of the oil up to the upper cylinders. Radial engines collect oil in the lower cylinders and the engine starts better if the prop is turned a few times by hand before starting the engine. Īlso, how did they get a prop blade pointing exactly vertical on all 4 engines? Does that happen as a result of some mechanical mechanism or luck or did some ground crewman turn the props manually or electrically when the engines were stopped? I wonder how long it took to get the EIR through. Ĭan you imagine all the solvents and tire dust and petroleum products that run right into the ocean every time in rains.
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It looks like they just piled 18 inch of crushed coral on top of the soil.