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1942年3月27日，约翰·威尔科克斯少将率领美国39特遣舰队在北大西洋上乘风破浪，赶往苏格兰，与英国本土的舰队会合。上午10点半左右，尾部瞭望手发出了“人员落水”的警报，通过望远镜可以看到一人影在海浪中挣扎。由于整个编队按要求必须保持无线电静默，所以本森舰长只能通过鸣笛和灯光信号把人员落水的警告通知编队内其他战舰。不久后，驱逐舰DD 429报告说，看到一名男子在波涛汹涌的海浪中脸朝下漂浮着，但转眼又看不见了。为查清谁落水，各舰开始进行全舰点名，所有本舰官兵都在。本森舰长决定把情况报告给编队司令威尔考克斯将军，由将军定夺，却发现将军住舱里空无一人。于是“华盛顿”号紧急行动起来，全舰上下找了个遍，没有发现威尔考克斯将军。
答案很明显——威尔考克斯将军掉海里了！
令人称奇的是，在整个第二次世界大战中，华盛顿号是美军战列舰中功勋最为卓著的战舰。它从北极圈打到西太平洋，在战争中单独击沉敌舰的总吨位比美国海军的其他任何战列舰都多。还击沉了日本战列舰雾岛号，是美军的历史上是第一次也是唯一一次与敌舰单挑时击沉对方同级别军舰的战例。在海战中，它还击落了12架敌机，参与轰炸10座岛屿，被空袭53次。在战争中它获得了15枚战斗之星勋章，并且没有一人战斗死亡。唯一的例外就是乘坐它的舰队司令威尔考克斯海军少将掉进海里溺毙。
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- 回复 alaok
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indy: 疑似鸡汤
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Wilcox_Jr.
- 回复 indy
- “On the morning of 27 March 1942, the second day of the voyage, Wilcox appeared unaccompanied and without a coat on Washington's deck while Task Force 39 was pushing through heavy seas off Sable Island in stormy North Atlantic winter weather. ”
难道只有我一个人觉得这一段描述有问题？一个军舰最高长官怎么可能有unaccompanied的时候？
- 回复 无言
- 这段下面不是说了调查结果和各种怀疑吗？
indy: “On the morning of 27 March 1942, the second day of the voyage, Wilcox appeared unaccompanied and without a coat on Washington's deck while Task Forc ...
“Board of investigation
Immediately after Wilcox's death, Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen aboard Wichita took command of Task Force 39. He ordered a board of investigation into the loss of Wilcox to convene aboard Washington on the afternoon of 27 March 1942. It examined 43 witnesses over the next seven days. No one had seen how Wilcox had gone overboard. The heavy seas that morning could simply have swept him overboard, but the board explored other possibilities. Witnesses disagreed on Wilcox's mental state; there were claims that he seemed sad or nervous on the morning of 27 March and that he had exhibited unstable behavior in recent days, but these were balanced by other witnesses who said he seemed of sound mind and that, although he was known to exhibit eccentricities not common among officers of his grade, his behavior otherwise was not unusual on the morning of his death. One witness believed that Wilcox seemed pale and white during his last few minutes on deck and perhaps was ill, leading to speculation that he may have suffered a heart attack while on deck and fallen overboard.[44][46][47][48]
Many rumors circulated in the aftermath of Wilcox's death, including that he had been suicidal and had jumped overboard or that someone pushed him overboard, but none of these ideas could be substantiated. When the board concluded its proceedings on 2 April 1942, it found that no one aboard Washington had been negligent in Wilcox's death and that Wilcox had not died owing to any misconduct of his own.[44][46][4] Decades later, a new hypothesis surfaced based on the reports of Wilcox seeming pale and white while on deck on the morning of 27 March, speculating that he may have been seasick and had rushed to the ship's side to vomit, but had mistakenly selected an area where lifelines were not rigged, falling overboard as a result.[44] Wilcox was the first U.S. Navy admiral — and one of only two[note 2] — ever lost at sea.[3]”
- 回复 indy
- 没有看到有说明为什么他是一个人这个关键问题
无言: 这段下面不是说了调查结果和各种怀疑吗？
“Board of investigation
Immediately after Wilcox's death, Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen aboard Wichita took c ...
