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Hypothetical: The Navy drafted you in WWII.

I found a database of major American WWII ships the other day and pulled it into Excel. Then I found information on crew sizes. Now I have a simple simulator.

So if you were drafted into the Navy in World War II and were assigned to a large ship (e.g., submarine, destroyer, cruiser, or larger), I can now randomly assign you to a ship. Report in this thread to get your assignment.

I'll tell you your ship, and then it's up to you to look it up and see where it went and what happened to it. If the ship took casualties, let me know how many were killed and wounded and I'll do a random draw to see if you would have survived.


As for me, I would have been one of 700 sailors aboard:

Juneau** Atlanta-class Light Cruiser**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Juneau_(CL-52)

That's not really a good thing. I hung out with a nice set of five brothers from Iowa, the Sullivans, but we saw some bad things.

We launched early in 1942 and did some early runs in the Atlantic and Caribbean before heading to the Pacific Theater. Right out of the gate in the Pacific we had to rescue sailors from an aircraft carrier that sank from a sub attack, and then we headed to Guadalcanal.

Our task force fought off four attacks from the Japanese, one of which took down another aircraft carrier.

Then another big Japanese group attacked, and we took a torpedo. We headed off toward Vanuatu for repairs, running with two other damaged ships, when we were attacked again by a Japanese sub. We took another torpedo which blew the ship to smithereens and we sank in 20 seconds.

The other two ships assumed there were no survivors and took off running. In actuality, 100 of the crew survived the sinking, but only about 10 survived the next eight days until rescue aircraft found them.

Based on a random dice roll, I went down with the ship, so my naval career ended late in 1942. I hope America won.
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:24 PM   #76
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Sign me up! hopefully on that fancy USS Arizona looks new and purrty.
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Bwahaha. What are the odds of that? That was truly a random roll.

Oh, and you died.
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:25 PM   #77
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Bataan (Independence-class)** Independence-class Light Carrier**


We had a bunch of carriers, apparently.
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:26 PM   #78
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:27 PM   #79
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I'm ex-Navy. What the hell.
Wasp (Wasp-class)** Wasp-class Aircraft Carrier**

Another guy that I rescued before my ship went down. Where were you when it was my turn in the drink?
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:28 PM   #81
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Uh-oh. That's another one I've heard of. Let me know if there were casualties.
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Ah. Another one who got the new model-year battleship.

Someone tell me the difference between the battleship classes. I'm curious now.
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The carriers had big crews. There are lots of subs, but no one has managed to draw one yet.
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I would but I volunteered for the Army Air Corp and I'm still flying around somewhere on a B-17.
You're in the Navy now. You're not behind a plow.

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