Just Call Me Captain

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dibbons

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Fired up the old Commodore 128 computer and played "Destroyer" (WW II fletcher-class warship) for a couple of hours today during breaks from my house painting chores. Game works on both Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. This evening I stumbled onto an hour documentary on the same ship.





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Who was the Captain in WW2 where the US had an engagement with Japan around some islands, started a surface sea Attack, it was a superior force, so everyone ELSE turned around to retreat but the Captain of one of these Fletcher class ships just doubled down, charged ahead faster and gave it everything they had (in lead) so the rest of the American force could escape? That story always tickled me.
 
When a friend of mine bought a 128 "back then" he talked me into buying his Vic20, complete with audio tape 'hard drive." That damn thing very nearly cured me of EVER wanting to touch a computer
 
Who was the Captain in WW2 where the US had an engagement with Japan around some islands, started a surface sea Attack, it was a superior force, so everyone ELSE turned around to retreat but the Captain of one of these Fletcher class ships just doubled down, charged ahead faster and gave it everything they had (in lead) so the rest of the American force could escape? That story always tickled me.

DD557 the USS Johnston.

USS Johnston (DD-557) - Wikipedia
 
Are you sure about this calling you Captain thing?
Don't they also go down with the ship?

“O Captain, My Captain”


(1865) A poem by Walt Whitman about a captain who dies just as his ship has reached the end of a stormy and dangerous voyage. The captain represents Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated just as the Civil War was ending.
 
Who was the Captain in WW2 where the US had an engagement with Japan around some islands, started a surface sea Attack, it was a superior force, so everyone ELSE turned around to retreat but the Captain of one of these Fletcher class ships just doubled down, charged ahead faster and gave it everything they had (in lead) so the rest of the American force could escape? That story always tickled me.


Battle off Samar - Wikipedia
 
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