![]() ![]() Make the battleship USS Texas an old, stubborn veteran who don’ fight so good no more but still sorties out with the rest of the girls (she was launched in 1912 ahead of WW1, a real old-timer among WW2-era ships).So, uh, yeah, let’s use my imagination and try to create a few new Azur Lane characters with actual character and historical inspiration: Why use real warships if you don’t bother to engage with their real histories? The drama of naval action on the high seas lends itself so well to the anthropomorphization of warships that even a quick scan of the Wikipedia pages for the war’s most famous ships could produce a solid cast of diverse characters if only Azur Lane had applied a little imagination. I don’t know what Azur Lane is going for here. Roller-bladers: Enterprise clashes with Zuikaku, I guess. Sometimes fight with swords and bows while skating across the flat sea like World War 2 saw the pioneering use of …plasma weaponry? And yeah, they actually just stand on the water like that. If you wanted to anthropomorphize warships, I think you could make a strong case to turn the Laffey into a stern, unyielding madman with suicidal determination to match the kamikaze she shot down.īy contrast how does Azur Lane, a new fall 2019 anime premised on warships transforming into cute anime girls to do battle against a mysterious “siren” threat, depict the Laffey? By turning the destroyer into a sleepy slob who likes to drink cola to stay awake. But when asked if he would give the order to abandon ship, Laffey’s captain, Commander Frederick Becton, supposedly said “I’ll never abandon ship as long as a single gun will fire.” Except nearby crewmen wondered if the Laffey still had anyone left to man the guns… ![]() And boy did the Laffey find the planes alright - in just 80 minutes, she sustained damage from 22 air attacks, including four bomb hits and five to six kamikaze strikes (sources sometimes disagree), resulting in severe damage to the ship and over 100 casualties to her crew. In April, 1945 the destroyer USS Laffey sailed north of Okinawa for radar picket duty to assist in the detection of Japanese kamikaze aircraft during the American invasion of the island. The battered USS Laffey (DD-724) after combat near Okinawa. ![]()
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