Anonymous ID: 57ed66 Jan. 14, 2021, 4:52 a.m. No.42063   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2073 >>2108 >>2173 >>2223

>>42046 Good Morning d2l.

 

Cool - Navy 'standing watch' on the McCain.

 

General quarters on the Ralph Johnson.

General Quarters battle stations, or action stations is an announcement made aboard a naval warship to signal that all hands (everyone available) aboard a ship must go to battle stations as quickly as possible.

 

USSRalphJohnson: the ship was to be named Ralph Johnson in honor of Marine Ralph H. Johnson, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for shielding two fellow Marines from a grenade in March 1968 during the Vietnam War.

 

The battle of Vella Gulf (6 August 1943) was a clear American victory that crushed one of the last attempts by the 'Tokyo Express' to get reinforcements to the remaining Japanese garrisons in the New Georgia Islands.