Countdown to Kickoff

[Blitzkrieg]

That's one of my combat patches.

Awesome!

 

[gamecock88]

P-40 Warhawk

 

[kingofnerf]

I was wondering if anyone would remember Morrison's number.  Pts.

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Brooklyn, CL-40.  Lead ship of her class.

Comedian Lenny Bruce, who joined the Navy at 17, served aboard Brooklyn during the period between 1942–44 as a forward turret shell passer and saw combat in the Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Brooklyn_(CL-40)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Beale, DD-40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Beale_(DD-40)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Mississippi, CGN-40. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mississippi_(CGN-40)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Bowers, APD-40.  Formerly DE-637.

USS Bowers (DE-637/APD-40), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Robert K. Bowers (1915-1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

Kamikaze attack

On the 3rd, Bowers was assigned to a radar picket station about 10 miles north of Kerama Retto to provide the other ships around Okinawa with an early warning of approaching air attacks. That day, a single torpedo bomber attacked Bowers and USS Gendreau, but the latter escort shot down the offending plane before it could do any damage. The next day, Bowers' gunners shot down another torpedo bomber. The ensuing nine days were quiet, although her crew frequently manned their battle stations because of approaching air contacts.

Bowers was then assigned to anti-submarine screen duty six miles north of Ie Shima. At dawn on 16 April, the destroyer escort shot down one attacking Japanese plane. Then at 09:30, two more planes came in, flying low and fast. Bowers maneuvered radically to avoid the planes as they split to attack the escort. The first came in dead ahead, but Bowers' guns brought it down. The second passed over the ship as her port guns came to bear. Despite the heavy gunfire, the kamikaze regained altitude, turned, and came in from a 45-degree angle forward. It crashed into the warship's flying bridge, spraying high octane gasoline over the bridge and pilot house. The plane's bomb penetrated the pilot house and continued down through the ship for 20 feet before it exploded and sprayed the deck with fragments. Fire fighting parties brought the flames under control in about 45 minutes; but 37 men from the ship were killed, 11 were reported missing, and many of her 56 wounded died later.

USS Bowers (DE-637) with crashed Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 on the bridge. (below)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bowers_(DE-637)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Tarawa, CV-40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tarawa_(CV-40)

 

[Swayin]

BB-40, USS New Mexico, with Mt Fuji in the background at the end of the war.

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[kingofnerf]

Submarine USS S-40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_S-40_(SS-145)

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[kingofnerf]

Joe Morrison prepares to catch a pass from either Frank Gifford or Fran Tarkenton, who was drafted by the NY Giants and then later traded to Minnesota.

Morrison's career stats with the Giants:





Rushing


 


 


 


 


 


 




YEAR


TEAM


G


ATT


YDS


AVG


TD




1959


New York Giants


12


62


165


2.7


1




1960


New York Giants


12


103


346


3.4


2




1961


New York Giants


13


33


48


1.5


1




1962


New York Giants


14


35


146


4.2


1




1963


New York Giants


14


119


568


4.8


3




1964


New York Giants


14


45


138


3.1


1




1965


New York Giants


13


3


20


6.7


1




1966


New York Giants


14


67


275


4.1


2




1967


New York Giants


13


36


161


4.5


2




1968


New York Giants


14


9


28


3.1


0




1969


New York Giants


14


107


387


3.6


4




1970


New York Giants


10


11


25


2.3


0




1971


New York Giants


13


38


131


3.5


0




1972


New York Giants


14


9


36


4


0




TOTAL


 


184


677


2474


3.7


18




 


 


 


 


 


 


 




Receiving


 


 


 


 


 


 




YEAR


TEAM


G


REC


YDS


AVG


TD




1959


New York Giants


12


17


183


10.8


1




1960


New York Giants


12


29


367


12.7


3




1961


New York Giants


13


11


67


6.1


1




1962


New York Giants


14


6


107


17.8


2




1963


New York Giants


14


31


284


9.2


7




1964


New York Giants


14


40


505


12.6


2




1965


New York Giants


13


41


574


14


4




1966


New York Giants


14


46


724


15.7


6




1967


New York Giants


13


37


524


14.2


7




1968


New York Giants


14


37


425


11.5


6




1969


New York Giants


14


44


647


14.7


7




1970


New York Giants


10


11


136


12.4


0




1971


New York Giants


13


40


411


10.3


1




1972


New York Giants


14


5


39


7.8


0




TOTAL


 


184


395


4993


12.6


47




 


 


 


 


 


 


 




Kick Return


 


 


 


 


 


 




YEAR


TEAM


G


RET


YDS


AVG


TD




1959


New York Giants


12


15


345


23


0




1960


New York Giants


12


0


0


0


0




1961


New York Giants


13


2


32


16


0




1962


New York Giants


14


5


113


22.6


0




1963


New York Giants


14


4


75


18.8


0




1964


New York Giants


14


4


75


18.8


0




TOTAL


 


184


30


640


21.3


0




 


 


 


 


 


 


 




Punt Return


 


 


 


 


 


 




YEAR


TEAM


G


RET


YDS


AVG


TD




1959


New York Giants


12


15


51


3.4


0




1960


New York Giants


12


0


0


0


0




1961


New York Giants


13


3


6


2


0




1962


New York Giants


14


5


22


4.4


0




TOTAL


 


184


23


79


3.4


0





Sa-lute!

In case you're wondering, Odell Beckham, Jr., finished with 5550 total yards in 5 years versus Morrison's 8186 during Joe's much longer time with the Giants.  OBJ had 5476 total receiving yards compared to Morrison's previously-unmatched 4993 receiving yards.

 

[kingofnerf]

'40 Ford.

 

[gamecock88]

 

[gamecock88]

 

[Blitzkrieg]

39th Division - made up of National Guard soldiers from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Lake Champlain, CV-39.

USS Lake Champlain (CV/CVA/CVS-39) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

Commissioned on 3 June 1945, Lake Champlain did not participate in World War II, but did serve as a transport, bringing troops home from Europe as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s, and re-designated as an attack carrier (CVA). She participated in the Korean War but spent the rest of her career in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. In the late 1950s, she was re-designated as an antisubmarine carrier (CVS).

She was the prime recovery ship for the first manned Project Mercury mission (Freedom 7), the second unmanned Gemini mission (Gemini 2), and for the third manned Gemini (Gemini 5) space mission.

Lake Champlain had a unique modernization history. She was the only Essex-class ship to receive the SCB-27 conversion which was a rebuild of the superstructure, flight deck and other features but without also receiving the SCB-125 conversion which would have given her an angled flight deck and hurricane bow. Therefore, she was the last operational US aircraft carrier with an axial flight deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lake_Champlain_(CV-39)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Texas, CGN-39.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(CGN-39)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Quincy, CA-39.

USS Quincy (CA-39) was a United States Navy New Orleans-class cruiser, sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Quincy_(CA-39)