Humpday History Highlight
By Wyatt Earp | February 22, 2012
I’m still sick as a dog, so posting will be light today. I did, however, get a cool story idea from Robert B. that fits the HHH criteria.
The WWII destroyer USS William D. Porter was easily the stupidest ship ever launched. If ships were people, this one would be the kid who ate paste off a stick. And then almost killed the president by accident.
You really have to read the stories at the link.
Topics: HHH | 9 Comments »
Howdy Wyatt! I’m sorry to hear you’re still feeling sick as a dog and prayers and good wishes are on their way up for you now.
But I gotta say, that story was one of the funniest “war stories” I’ve ever read! I had heard of the USS William D. Porter and her, ah, experience with FDR, but not how she ended her career.
But for the fact that a high probability exists that a lot of U.S. Sailors lost their lives or were wounded, her demise is almost fairy tale funny!
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for summoning the strength to post this, and I do hope you get to feeling better SOON.
It felt like I was reliving high school.
If you wrote a book about the facts people would think it was a crazy novel.
Feel better Buddy…………………
The saga of the Porter just cries out to be made into a movie. Johnny Knoxville, call your agent.
(Who else to play the Porter’s command staff but the “Jackass” crew?)
Great story chuckled the whole time I was reading it.
The 5 inch shell in the base commanders flower garden was classic! It reminded me of the one Monty Python skit
about the garden party: Lazy summer day at an English mansion, women strolling the veranda with parisolles, men in high necked suits holding drinks, children playing cricket off in the distance…then….the butler comes out of the huge bay doors on the veranda with a little silver triangle..ding ding ding..attention everyone INCOMING!
They make the crew from McHale”s Navy look stupendous!
If you wrote a book about the facts people would think it was a crazy novel.
Like Mr. Roberts meets the 3 Stooges, or The Little Rascals Go To War, or The Sane Mutiny.
When I sumbled across this story (linked) at Ace of Spades, I kept laughing so much my lady thought I’d lost the remaining functioning brain cell in my noggin. I knew this would be comment fodder for the deputies here. Glad you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.
Sorry to hear you are under the weather again, Wyatt. Stay safe, stay warm, and get some rest.
Wyatt:
Good Lord, this really DOES need to become a movie!
That’s too fracking weird to be anthing BUT Hollywood fodder for the Box Office.
Thanks Robert B for a (very) little known story of our past.
Makes (the fictional) Operation Petticoat seem like a Greek tragedy!
Well done.
Stay safe.
It’s said that history turns on the smallest things. Although in this case it was a battleship!