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p.153 WAHOO, The Patrools of Americas most Famious WW2 Submarine, By Richard H. O'Kane.

After Torepdoing a Seiwa Maru Class Transport Mush Mortain Orderd "Battle Stations man Both Gun's"

" I'll order a single four inch-round at the largerest craft, and we'll continue in to see if we draw any return fire....Machine Guns, it'll be your job to chase the troops out of their boats, and Cheif Carr (speaking directly to the 4 inch gun captain) you smash up the baots, their is only time for a single pass so use maximume rate of fire. Besides the deck gun we had one 20mm Cannon ad two BAR's, all maned and ready....Wahoos fire , all to starboard was methodical, the small guns sweeping from abeam forward like fire hosses cleaning a streat. The japanese troops, in Khaki with shorts and all whearing life jackets, sought safty in the seas as the deck gun demolished their boats"

O'Kane states that the resioning was that the Troopps in the Life boats could of been rescued and that they were compeled to kill them to prevent this, though couriosly he also states that they dident realy try and shoot at the troops specificaly just their boats, yet he also claimes that some were undoubtly killed in so doing....

Priour to this pasage the Author mentions that their were literly thousnads of Japanese in the watter, and the Captain (Mush Mortan) told him we cant let these men be rescued, the most effecent way of killing them was to sink their life boats. The ship in question was also traveling alone, and they were prety far from any shore so it is likely most if not all dieed.

Another answer is that after the Battle of the Bismark Sea, Allied Air units were ordered to strafe the Japanese surviviors so that they did not swim to the shore.

Brady

Whats that?!? I mean a gun...



It had any wheels to use it without snow?

That must have hurt bad when he tried to do a belly flop during a fast get away

And think of the negative G's from the recoil! Straight into his wibbly bits...

Just think if he were required to fire 5 or 6 round from the same position, it would remind me of wiley coyote trying to get a shot at the road runner.

Look for the ACME label on the gun.

And the recoil would inevitably cause him to go flying over a cliff with the usual expression of despair on his face, and a little sign with the word "'bye!" on it.

LOL [:D]

ORIGINAL: Monter_Trismegistos

Whats that?!? I mean a gun...

It had any wheels to use it without snow?

It´s a "Raketenwerfer 43 (8,8cm R.Wfr. 43, "Püppchen")"

A recoilless rocketlauncher for the 88-mm rocket. There was a "wheeled" and a "skie" version.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

And the recoil would inevitably cause him to go flying over a cliff with the usual expression of despair on his face, and a little sign with the word "'bye!" on it.

There is no recoil on this one [;)]

I know, I know... But the image is pretty funny, isn't it?

If thats a rocket launcher, is he waring an asbestos athletic protector