SmokeEaterPilot
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- Jun 3, 2011
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Working on collecting items that help complement SRS hits. And a theme around the hit.
Here is a SRS hit to the US Navy in 1941.
1017612 082341 PUGET SOUND NAVY YD
It's to the US Navy Yard at Puget Sound, however once pulling the document you can see it narrows it down to a carrier the USS Saratoga. The Sara has an interesting history. Initially, she was a battlecruiser but converted to one of the first aircraft carriers to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
These rifles were pulled off and surveyed in August of 1941 when her A.A. and Radar was being upgraded. In a separate location at the archives, it notes that landing force equipment and small arms were being eliminated for carriers (with the exception of USMC detachments). The entire purpose of a landing party was to secure hostile ports (like Vera Cruz in 1914) but as doctrine changed, the US Navy would not let a carrier anywhere near a hostile port, thereby making landing force equipment unnecessary.
I always stress to people interested in SRS hits a couple of things to get started and be mindful of.
1) Try not to interpret too much from an SRS citation. The documentation may lead you in an entirely different direction than you would by going on the citation alone. Here for example, who would have this citation was talking specifically about the USS Saratoga? (There were other naval ships being surveyed at this time and are in the SRS as well. Under the same citation).
2) Always try to get the document first. Just because a small arm is an SRS hit does not make it documented. It just means its a match to a database which may or may not be correct. There are transcription errors.
Here is a SRS hit to the US Navy in 1941.
1017612 082341 PUGET SOUND NAVY YD
It's to the US Navy Yard at Puget Sound, however once pulling the document you can see it narrows it down to a carrier the USS Saratoga. The Sara has an interesting history. Initially, she was a battlecruiser but converted to one of the first aircraft carriers to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
These rifles were pulled off and surveyed in August of 1941 when her A.A. and Radar was being upgraded. In a separate location at the archives, it notes that landing force equipment and small arms were being eliminated for carriers (with the exception of USMC detachments). The entire purpose of a landing party was to secure hostile ports (like Vera Cruz in 1914) but as doctrine changed, the US Navy would not let a carrier anywhere near a hostile port, thereby making landing force equipment unnecessary.
I always stress to people interested in SRS hits a couple of things to get started and be mindful of.
1) Try not to interpret too much from an SRS citation. The documentation may lead you in an entirely different direction than you would by going on the citation alone. Here for example, who would have this citation was talking specifically about the USS Saratoga? (There were other naval ships being surveyed at this time and are in the SRS as well. Under the same citation).
2) Always try to get the document first. Just because a small arm is an SRS hit does not make it documented. It just means its a match to a database which may or may not be correct. There are transcription errors.
