[Magdalen] Eternal Father, Strong to Save

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Weather forecasting was pretty much guesswork back then, especially in a
war when you have even less information available about what is going on.
It was sort of inevitable that  at some point a fleet would be surprised by
a typhoon. Early warning was not really happening. Even today we find that
these monsters of the weather have an unpredictable nature, and just take
off in unpredictable directions. Back then, the destroyer was smaller than
many pleasure yachts, and they were intended for tactical speed, not
surviving a typhoon. The moment some little thing goes wrong, all is lost.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 6/21/2017 3:58:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> friarjohn00 at gmail.com writes:
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> He  served on a Destroyer
> and would have ended up in the drink if he had been  at his duty station at
> the  time.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> There was that infamous collision between the Pacific Typhoon Cobra
> and the US Pacific Fleet in December, 1944.  THREE  destroyers
> were lost along with 790 men, and there was much damage  to vessels that
> remained afloat.
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> There had been some weather warnings, but it was garbled, and
> though there was an official inquiry about this fiasco, Halsey, who
> was ultimately responsible for the collision (NOT the weather) was
> exonerated.  The whole matter was kept hush-hush because of
> the war efforts.  The event isn't well known even to this day.
>
> I'm there will be sacrificial lambs for this new episode.  It is hard  to
> imagine how it could have happened.
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> David S.
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