#Henry F. Schricker

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Indiana Governor DILFs

Frank O'Bannon, Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels, Otis Bowen, Evan Bayh, Edgar Whitcomb, George N. Craig, Edward L. Jackson, Eric Holcomb, Henry F. Schricker, Harold W. Handley, Harry G. Leslie, Joe Kernan, Paul V. McNutt, Matthew E. Welsh, Ralph F. Gates, Roger D. Branigin, Robert D. Orr

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The USS Indiana (BB-58) was a South Dakota-class battleship built for the United States Navy in the 1930s. It was launched on November 21, 1941, and commissioned on April 30, 1942, with Captain A.S. Merrill in command. The ship was the second of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the Navy in the 1930s. It was sponsored by Mrs. Lewis C. Robbins, daughter of Indiana governor Henry F. Schricker. After shaking down in the Atlantic, she joined the war against Japan, operating in the South Pacific from late November 1942 into October 1943.1 The ship had a displacement of 35,000 long tons and had a crew of 2,600. It was modified from the original SoDak class using lessons learned from the two previous ships.

View from the superstructure of USS Indiana (BB-58) during a cyclone on June 5, 1945.

Note: the wrecked Vought OS2U Kingfishers on the fantail.

"...a powerful cyclone formed in the Philippine Sea and moved north toward Okinawa; it struck Third Fleet on June 5 south of the island. Indiana recorded winds as high as 80 knots (150 km/h; 92 mph), which tore one of her Kingfishers from its catapult and hurled it into the sea. The winds also blew seawater into the ventilation intakes for the engine room, shorting out her switchboard and disabling her steering controls for about forty minutes."

-info from wikipedia.

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