{"id":31058,"date":"2012-10-13T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31058"},"modified":"2012-10-13T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:32:40","slug":"anchors-aweigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31058","title":{"rendered":"Anchors Aweigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday United States Navy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note to Democrats: \u00a0after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30474\">your debacle at the convention<\/a>, where your &#8220;tribute&#8221; to &#8220;American&#8221; servicepeople featured Soviet ships and Turkish jets, I kinda feel bad for your ship-recognition skills. \u00a0But I&#8217;m all about the help.<\/p>\n<p>The folloiwng&#8230;:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armchairgeneral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image\/2008\/blogs\/cdeste\/may2008\/bismarck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The KMS &#8220;Bismarck&#8221;, the most famous surface ship of Hitler&#8217;s Navy.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/navy\/udaloy_class_destroyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Soviet-era <em>Udaloy<\/em>-class anti-submarine destroyer<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"http:\/\/www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk\/local\/pics\/vicfct.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk\/local\/pics\/vicfct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMS <em>Victory<\/em>, Lord Nelson&#8217;s flagship &#8211; in the <em>British<\/em> Navy &#8211; at the Battle of Trafalgar.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 1178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bemil.chosun.com\/nbrd\/data\/10054\/upfile\/201012\/20101218101552_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1168\" height=\"704\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The IJN <em>Kaga<\/em>, Japanese aircraft carrier during World War 2.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;are not USN.<\/p>\n<p>These, however&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donmooreswartales.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/nick-gassera-ship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Collett, US Navy destroyer in World War 2, Korea and Vietnam.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialoperations.com\/Operations\/ivybells.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.specialoperations.com\/Images_Folder\/library2\/683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Parche, most famous as a cold-war era spy submarine. Click on the picture for the story.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-73Rwk-1TLHo\/UC77ebP0rnI\/AAAAAAAAEKc\/-qTrz5tgQpk\/s1600\/USS_Constitution_1997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oldest warship still in commission and floating, the USS Constitution, whose keel was laid down in 1793.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;are.<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday United States Navy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31060,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31058\/revisions\/31060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}