The Battle Of The Vega Gulf | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story
1,551(Another masterpiece from u/WRickWrites!)
Another continuation of my Deadly, Deadly Humans universe. In the original story the narrator was a high school teacher, but this time I really decided to really go out on a limb and use a university professor. Hope you enjoy.
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This story was granted permission to narrate and add to YouTube by the Author: u/WRickWrites
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** Authors Note **
Dedicated to the memory of the crews of the following ships:
- HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent, who charged and seriously damaged the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while attempting to give the carrier HMS Glorious time to escape.
- USS Johnston and the three other destroyers of Taffy 3 who engaged a fleet of Japanese battleships and cruisers - including the Yamato, largest battleship ever built, whose guns alone weighed more than Johnston - and successfully scared them away from the undefended carriers of the Taffy 3 taskforce.
- HMS Glowworm, who when alone and faced with the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper decided that running was for pussies, and accelerated to ramming speed.
I always thought it was unfair that the Yamato - which was only ever in one real battle and ran away from a destroyer - got an entire anime series written about its future reincarnation, while the USS Johnston got squat. Battleships may be the poster-boys, but destroyers make better stories.
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