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Ben Walker (bwmodular)

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USS Johnston was a Fletcher-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Lieutenant John V. Johnston, a navy officer during the American Civil War. The ship was laid down in May 1942 and was launched in March 1943, entering active duty later that year as part of the US Pacific Fleet. Johnston provided naval gunfire support for American ground forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign in 1944 and again, after three months of patrol and escort duty in the Solomon Islands, during the recapture of Guam in July. Thereafter, Johnston was tasked with escorting escort carriers during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign and the liberation of the Philippines. On 25 October 1944, Johnston and various other ships were engaged by a large Imperial Japanese Navy flotilla, in what became known as the Battle off Samar. After engaging several Japanese capital ships and a destroyer squadron, Johnston was sunk with 187 dead. Johnston's wreck was discovered in 2019, and at a depth of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 m) below the surface, is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever surveyed. This photograph shows Johnston in Seattle in October 1943.Photograph credit: uidentified US Navy photographer; restored by Adam Cuerden and Cobatfor

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Joy Division (This name was a reference to groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during WWII who were kept for the Nazi guards' sexual pleasure, as described in Ka-tzetnik 135633's 1955 book, The House of Dolls.)
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Uriah Heep - Dickens
Mott the Hoople? Willard Manus novel
Mothers of Invention - Saying
Dry & Heavy - Burning Spear
Thompson Twins - Tintin
Deacon Blue - after Steely Dan - Deacon Blues from Album Aya (1977)
Fine Young Cannibals - 1960 Movie All The Fine Young Cannibals, starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
Iron Maiden
Hüsker Dü
Dr. Feelgood
R.E.M.
Thin Lizzy - After Beano character Tin Lizzy
The Teardrop Explodes - From a copy of Daredevil comic (issue 77). There is a large silver teardrop in Central Park and without warning, 'The Teardrop Explodes'
They Might Be Giants - 1971 movie starring George Scott
Tears for Fears - Arthur Janov's primal scream therapy book
Duran Duran - Barbarella