Third time around, in the last eleven years. I didn’t paint the deck this time. And the three turret tops, 1,2 and 4, aren’t red. (way pre Dec 7,1941) And the holes didn’t line up for the rear fighting top, cocked to port a bit. It’s Revell, to be expected. I scraped the other two. Sometimes I get bored.
I think I build this version back in the 1970s. I was a young lad and had already built several later classes of US battleships. Consequently, i was bit concerned by her appearance-she did not look like what I thought it should, not realizing it was a vintage WWI design.
"A catastrophic failure for USS Michigan (BB-27) took place about a year and a half after she suffered a burst barrel during a gunnery exercise (see previous post). The repair work done at the time was insufficient and failed during a storm in Jan, 1918. Six sailors would perish. [5856x4664]"
When I helped teach the WW2 class at Purdue I was given the Pearl Harbor module. (Surprise!) One of the questions I always got was "why haven't they removed the bodies from the wreck?" I explain that when they could be found they were removed. I then explained that the forward ammunition storage was directly under the berthing spaces in that part of the ship. If they looked for the sailors in that area they MIGHT find some bones or teeth, but no intact or nearly so bodies. Thing got quiet for a bit.
I would think the mortal risk to the divers would outweigh the need to possibly recover what human pieces could be located.
'Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal' by Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, discusses some of this.
BTW, the "classified documents" Stinnett says "proves they knew the Japanese were coming!" were printed in the back of Wallin's book.
