221 - A Conspiracy to kill America's President? - WW2 - November 19, 1943

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  @WorldWarTwo · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @Penguin_in_the_Desert · 3 years ago

  Never attribute to conspiracy events that can be chalked up to incompetence.

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  @BeanManolo · 3 years ago

  What I find surprisingly is that almost killing FDR is somehow only one massive blunder in the list of blunders, incompetences and bad luck in general pulled off by the crew of the USS William D. Porter. Even the reason the commander of it didn&apos;t wanted to break radio silence is because they had accidentally did it before, so he wanted to avoid another bashing on top of the one for the accidental live torpedo.

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• GA

  @gargravarr2 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfrbfTOjc8&amp;t=162">2:42</a><br>The &quot;good old Lexington&quot; was sunk at Coral Sea in 1942. The USS Lexington in Task Force 50 is one of the four Essexes (the others being USS Essex herself, USS Yorktown, and USS Bunker Hill). The other old carrier in the force is the USS Enterprise.

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  @diapason89 · 3 years ago

  The William D Porter&apos;s career is one heck of an adventure tbh.

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• GU

  @gunman47 · 3 years ago

  An interesting thing to note on November 16 1943 is that the English village of Tyneham will begin eviction of its inhabitants by the British War Office, as they had acquired the village as well as the surrounding areas for use as firing ranges for training troops. This eviction was supposed to be temporary for the duration of the war, but its inhabitants would never return as the British Army made a compulsory purchase order on the land and remains in use as a military training ground ever since.

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  @hannahskipper2764 · 3 years ago (edited)

  USA in the Pacific 1942: We don&apos;t have enough stuff! What do we do?<br>USA in the Pacific 1943: We have too much stuff! What do we do?<br><br>The William Porter: Oh, shit...<br><br>Goebbels: Damn, where did they get all that stuff...<br>Stalin: Uh, I guess you haven&apos;t noticed that our Motherland is a lot bigger than your Fatherland. Plus, we have cooler allies. Just sayin&apos;...

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• RA

  @randomlyentertaining8287 · 3 years ago

  It should also be noted that while the torpedo was speeding towards the Iowa, Roosevelt was having a grand old time seeing everyone panic. &nbsp;Probably because he knew that it&apos;d take a lot more than a single torpedo to sink the Iowa lol

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  @radishinglad998 · 3 years ago

  Liberty ships featured pretty often in my engineering classes this semester. Especially the brittle material some were made of, and how they would just snap clean in half in the Arctic waters from the cold. Allied command had no explanation until such an instance happened in a Canadian harbor I believe. Before that they just assumed the Germans must have been throwing every submarine they had into the Arctic to sink so many ships, and without any kind of detection!<br><br>Moral of the story is that if you&apos;re going to be cranking out ships on a weekly basis, try and use some good materials.

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  @mjtpli · 3 years ago

  I congratulate Indy on getting 2+ years into Barbarossa before making that Princess Bride joke.

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  @eleanorkett1129 · 3 years ago

  Logistics in the Pacific were amazing. <br>Another great episode.

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  @AnonYmousTorkoal · 3 years ago

  ah, he&apos;s survived. I&apos;m glad that after this near miss there will probably be nothing to stop Roosevelt from seeing the war to its conclusion

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