USS Colorado - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1946

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Page 17 text:

This was really it — Okinawa. The main islands next, we thought, as we blasted the sea wall, blew rail junctions high enough for elevated trains, knocked out the guns that would pour fire on our men as they hit the beaches, did all that men and guns could do to prepare for D-day . . .

Page 16 text:

Up fifty, no change, they radio, and we respond. Or a new target is seen and we rapidly pour thousands of pounds of death upon it, for these are the eyes of the great main battery. Over Okinawa alone they flew 32,000 miles in carrying out their hazardous assignment.



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Topside a battle may be raging, or it may be a beautiful sunrise with carrier planes taking off from the formation, but here in Main Control the skill and experience of years guide the power to drive 32,000 tons through the water, doing that work without failure or fault, for a mistake might leave us a target for the enemy.

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