"Don't fire, I'm not the president!" Since William H. After the D. Porter fired a torpedo at President Roosevelt's car, the Iowa, the ships that met them would make such jokes, but the Porter's "oolong" continued, and then poked out the big basket of the commander's house!
After firing a torpedo at President Roosevelt, the Porter was ordered to leave the fleet immediately, dock nearby, and all the crew were arrested and interrogated. Captain Walter insisted that it was just an accident caused by misoperation, but many saw it as a deliberate sabotage of important Allied meetings by hostile elements.
After repeated and severe interrogations under high pressure, the torpedo driver Du Sen finally confessed the truth of the matter, it turned out that he forgot to abide by the operating rules during the exercise, did not take out the firing cap according to the procedure, and waited until the torpedo was fired, afraid of being tracked, he took advantage of the chaos to throw the fire cap into the sea.
Although Dusen was only 22 years old when he made his mistake and was a "recruit egg", the life of the us president was at stake, so he was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor. It was President Roosevelt's generous exoneration of him that he was able to exonerate himself.
Although Dussen was spared punishment, the Porter's reputation was infamous, and the Admiralty decided to "exile" it and transfer it to the most remote Ofel islands, the Aleutian Islands, and for the next year, the Porter "thought hard" and tried to save its reputation.
Sometimes warships have to believe in their fate, no matter how hard they try, as if the ship is destined to be a "troubled ship" During a break after an exercise, one of the ship's sailors came ashore drunk and returned drunk.
No one noticed that after the crew boarded the ship, he slipped into the main turret of the ship's gun in a flash, and when everyone found out that it was too late to block it, the big brother actually pulled the bolt of the 127 mm main gun, and with a loud "bang", the shell came out of the chamber and happened to fall into the garden in front of the commander's house of the base.
Even more coincidentally, on this day, the commander was at home to feast on all the commanders and ladies participating in the exercise. Fortunately, everyone was in the room and there were no casualties.
However, the "previous crime" of the Porter, which was already disgraceful, was added to the "heavy ink".
Later, the Pacific War entered the final stage, the ship losses were huge, the Admiralty could not take care of the old accounts, and transferred the Portel from Aleutian to the Philippines to participate in the final operation against Japan.
In March 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese organized a "notorious" kamikaze suicide attack, and the Porter was sent to the outermost periphery of the fleet to serve as the most dangerous anti-aircraft radar post, the first suicide aircraft to intercept the Japanese.
It may be that the whole ship is holding back a lot of energy, and the opportunity to make a meritorious contribution to the battle has come, and I want to be ashamed of the snow. In this battle, the Porter performed remarkablely, shooting down 6 Japanese aircraft and guiding the fleet to shoot down 7.
By the way, the "Oolong" ship can be described as a veritable name, and in this remarkable battle, the Porter also shot down 3 Us aircraft, and also opened fire on the friendly ship "Luce", hitting the ship's cabin and superstructure [covering his face].
However, this time the Porter still seemed to have no bad luck, and at 8:15 a.m. on June 10, an old Japanese Type 99 carrier-based dive bomber suddenly burst out of the clouds and crashed straight down towards the Porter.
Although the Portel was full of fire, and accurately hit it, thinking that it had escaped a disaster, it did not expect that the plane fell into the sea next to the Porter hull, and the aircraft filled with ammunition exploded violently under the water, and the huge impact force lifted the Porter out of the sea almost completely, and then smashed into the sea, and the whole ship suddenly caught fire and was incapacitated.
After 3 hours of rescue, the captain ordered the ship to abandon, and it is gratifying that all the crew members were rescued. The Porter immediately capsized and sank into the vast sea.
I know that many people like to joke about the Portel, in fact, look carefully for the reason, you will find that this ship is too "new", on the one hand, it is manufactured fast, and within 2 years, this Fletcher-class destroyer has built 175 ships in one go (here I have to admire the strength of the US empire, to know that this is 80 years ago)
On the other hand, most of the crew are recruit eggs, many people have not even seen the sea and naval uniforms before getting on the ship, it can be said that it is like "catching strong ding", before milking cows in the countryside to plant crops, in the blink of an eye to become sailors.
This is also an important reason why he later poked out the big basket - after firing a torpedo at the president, President Roosevelt personally interceded for the sentenced torpedo player Duson and pardoned him, of course, he did not deny that Roosevelt had high emotional intelligence and "would come to trouble".
Because if you dig deeper, this lack of training and rush to battle, the U.S. Admiralty can not blame, the lack of war preparation, even President Roosevelt himself is responsible.
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