<r>One of my favorite speeches would never have been given:<br/>
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"But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?<br/>
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"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Drex <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Okkay you got me Denisohn: DD= Dreadnought Destroyers? I don't recommend them against the Yamato or Musashi, better torpedo DBs or PTs. <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
"Destroyer" is short ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by madflava13 <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Seriously, we know where everyone is on this issue. No one is going to change any minds with more discussion. Let's call a halt to it, ok? <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Those are nice, but if Japan gets them, the US should get B-36's!

But it is modeled! Look what happened in my latest game:

Sub attack at 17,29

Japanese Ships
SS I-15, Potato hits 5

Allied Ships
DD O'Bannon


[edit: doh, hit the wrong button and posted too soon.]

<r>Funny, when I view it in Mozilla, there aren't any links up there, but now that I know to look, they're clearly there in the source code. Weird. Thanks again.<br/>
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Edit to add: OK, there it is. Still no idea why the link doesn't show up from the main page for me but the database is at <URL ...

SoulBlazer, thanks for the link to the combined fleet site -- I could easily spend a whole lot of time browsing through there. I had a look at the NWC library, but couldn't find any of the ship listings or service records for the USN. Do you have a specific link to some of those pages?