USS North Carolina

So I went to the Conjuring house and didn't really have much of anything.

And I was... flabbergasted flabbergasted i said how how could this be you know we're in one of america's biggest movie franchises based off of a real story how could this not be hitting uh didn't stop me didn't stop me i decided you know i was going to go check out some other places um i decided to go to a battleship called the uss north carolina um In between the Conjuring House and the USS North Carolina, I got a phone call.

The phone call I received is from my mother.

My mother had asked me if I could stop by her house.

Paul, welcome to America at Night.

I just wanted to add my two cents that my dad served on the USS North Carolina, the USS Boxer, the USS Helena.

Now, one of those ships was out to sea for more than one year.

Which one, I do not know, but I would like the history bus to find out.

as I am blind, and my dad used to talk about the men walking off the ships all the time.

And the USS North Carolina, a Japanese bomb was dropped down the smokestack of the USS North Carolina.

It did not explode, but it did kill three men, and they had to sail back to America.

Like that, not knowing when the bomb would explode or not.

And, um, But she's also doing Booze on the Battleship.

I will be in North Carolina at the beginning of May for that big paracont on the USS North Carolina.

And we get to investigate.

That's

It's a long trip.

He traveled aboard the USS North Carolina, and to accommodate his large size, he had a custom bathtub installed on the ship.

And the bathtub measured over seven feet long and weighing one ton.

Because he likes to stretch out.

Admiral Gormley contributed land-based air forces commanded by Rear Admiral John S. McCain.

Fletcher's support force consisted of three fleet carriers, the Saratoga CV-3, Enterprise CV-6, and Wasp CV-7, the battleship North Carolina BB-55, six cruisers, sixteen destroyers, and three oilers.

Admiral Turner's covering force included five cruisers and nine destroyers.

End of chapter one, read by Aaron Bennett.

They found the crippled Hi-I and pounded it mercilessly.

On the 14th, the Japanese were forced to scuttle it.

Admiral Halsey ordered his only surviving carrier, the Enterprise, out of the Guadalcanal area to get it out of reach of Japanese aircraft and sent his battleships, Washington BB-56 and South Dakota BB-55, with four escorting destroyers north to meet the Japanese.

Some of the Enterprise's planes flew into Henderson Field to help even the odds.