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Old 06-06-2012, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bigrun View Post
Been to Charleston couple times...visited the waterfront but not the ship...

What you said in bold...always boggles the mind to think of all that...the element of surprse, remember a movie that was mostly about the methods used to throw the Germans off the track...some of that was covered in The Longest Day...
as for charleston, been there several times now...lots of history to see. last time, went to both sumter and moultrie, saw the hunley (still in water while they try to get all the salt out), went to a museum downtown this last time, right acrossfrom the big visitors center...got to see a 7 barrel volley gun the brits had once issued to their navy91800's)-now that was something. they only ever made 600, as most of their sailors couldn't handle the thing. all 7 barrels fired at once! it'd break a shoulder-explains why they quickly fell out of use.
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