Ships of the Battle off Samar

I hardly know where to start. This is a wonderful project. Our President Ford served on one of those "Jeep" carriers. I have some relics of a man who was chief engineer on the Kalinin Bay. Including a piece of a 14" Japanese shell. Probably from the Haruna hit. It is interesting that Kalinin bay itself is on a Russian named island in the Alexander archipelago in Alaska. Beautiful work. The attack of the American destroyers and destroyer escorts on the Japanese fleet is one of the great heroic events in American naval history.
 
richie incident said:
HI All ^) Continuation of the construction of the IJN cruiser "Noshiro".
I recently learned that the cruiser received one damage in a battle off Samar. It is assumed that it was a 5" shell from the DD-557 Johnston that hit the bow superstructure

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Your build of the IJN cruiser "Noshiro" is amazing. If I may suggest, I doubt the covers of the auxiliary boats the Noshiro carried would be white. It would make the ship too visible to the enemy. They probably would have been painted to match the rest of the ship. I know they are painted white in your photographs, but those may have been taken before the war started.

Rob
 
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I understood you. The photo does not reflect the true color well. It's not white, it's beige-light yellowish. Imitation canvas. Which I recognized from a photo of the same type "Sakawa" and another type "Yura". Perhaps it's really too light. I'll try to find more information.

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Yura.jpg
 
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