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Steaming into the Strait
Photo taken by my Father of me (at the helm) and my brother Joe in the command chair on the bridge of the Battleship North Carolina in January 1985. Dad had just retired and the three of us took a fishing roadtrip to Cooper Santee in South Carolina. On the way home we went out of our way to see the battleship at Wilmington, NC.
The pantomime here is of us pretending to be Admiral Willis Lee and the Helmsman of the Battleship Washington as she steams into Battle at Guadalcanal to engage in the most dramatic gun battle of the Pacific War. In this, the Washington sank the Japanese Battleship Kirishima with her 16 inch guns. Washington was the North Carolina's sistership so the actual scene on the Washington (Scrapped around 1960) might have looked something like this. I'm sure there were many more on deck though, but this production was made on a very limited budget. Our expressions are supposed to be that of brave and grim determination. Don't take us too seriously.
Minolta XG-M 50mm Rokkor MC f2-16 lens. Tri-X Film.
Steaming into the Strait
Photo taken by my Father of me (at the helm) and my brother Joe in the command chair on the bridge of the Battleship North Carolina in January 1985. Dad had just retired and the three of us took a fishing roadtrip to Cooper Santee in South Carolina. On the way home we went out of our way to see the battleship at Wilmington, NC.
The pantomime here is of us pretending to be Admiral Willis Lee and the Helmsman of the Battleship Washington as she steams into Battle at Guadalcanal to engage in the most dramatic gun battle of the Pacific War. In this, the Washington sank the Japanese Battleship Kirishima with her 16 inch guns. Washington was the North Carolina's sistership so the actual scene on the Washington (Scrapped around 1960) might have looked something like this. I'm sure there were many more on deck though, but this production was made on a very limited budget. Our expressions are supposed to be that of brave and grim determination. Don't take us too seriously.
Minolta XG-M 50mm Rokkor MC f2-16 lens. Tri-X Film.