PIF Musgo Real Lime Basil Cream

[MinorDamage]

Alrighty. The new Musgo Creams are awesome, but this scent is not for me. I will be out of town this weekend, so I am going to leave it open until Sunday night. Here's the deal:

You,
1. Must not have any other of the new Musgo Creams in the stable.
2. Must have less than 10 creams/soaps total in the stable.
3. In 4 sentences or less, tell me what is your favorite naval battle and why it stands as such. This is wide open. Era, Country, Force disposition, etc does not matter. Please place your replies in this thread, not my PM box.

Josh

 

[7 O Menthol]

Wow - what a fantastic PIF! Thanks for giving back to the community I can't wait to read some of the entries.

 

[Nick Danger]

OK, this is a most interesting PIF. Not just because of the product offered, but because of the theme as well.

I do meet the first two requirements.

As for my favorite naval battle, I'm no historian but I'm choosing the Battle of Midway in WWII. The Japanese sought to trap the American Navy, finish them off and control the Pacific. Instead, the outnumbered American Navy sank all four Japanese aircraft carriers, and prevented a possible invasion of the American west coast. By cracking the Japanese code and learning about the trap, the battle became a turning point in the war in the Pacific.

Nick

 

[Gingerbread]

Damn, I'm at 12. Great PIF!

 

[ak1m]

The Battle of Myeongnyang, because I like turtles! And who doesn't like a comeback story with a clever underdog defeating Goliath? I'm not big into nationalism, but defending against colonizing forces? Sure!

 

[KindestCutofAll]

The Battle of Trafalgar. The greatest and last battle for Britain's most famous naval strategist, Lord Nelson. It was also his last!

 

[slamjet]

Sink the Bismark! Because all it took was one slow, outdated biplane with one torpedo to cripple a huge, powerful battleship.

 

[Omak]

Because I'm most interested in more ancient history I'd have to say my favorite naval battle was the battle of the Salamis fought between the greeks and the persians.

If you've seen 300, you know about Xerxes and his vast army, the Greeks beat them in a large naval battle in 480 BC. With news from the oracle that all would be destroyed but that "the wooden wall only shall not fail" it was determined this was their naval ships. With this news they fled the city tricking Xerxes into thinking they were gone and message was sent to cut them off while Xerxes burned Athens under cover of night. He was then attacked by sea, it's said the Persians lost over 200 ships and the Athenians only 40.

So there you have it, the story has Xerxes, Persia, Athens, oracles, trickery and burning of Athens.

 

[SmoovD]

Nice PIF. Good luck B&Bers.

 

[JoshuaNY]

Kool PIF idea. I'm not in, but enjoy Naval history so I wanted to share mine. My favorite is the Battle of Flamborough Head where the Bonhomme Richard fought the Serapis. It is general beleif that Commodore JPJ said "I have not yet begun to fight"

 

[DMT]

Sink the Bismark! Because all it took was one slow, outdated biplane with one torpedo to cripple a huge, powerful battleship.

And yet as Bob Ballard discovered, the entire British task force which ganged up on her only managed to destroy her superstructure and inflicted no significant damage on her hull. In the end she was scuttled to save her honor, making the fact that one torpedo hitting the right spot condemned her to her fate all the more amazing.

 

[Rodeodave]

Count me in, please. I have zero Musgo products and "only" two soaps (Plamolive and Speick) and two creams (Palmolive, Omega) in my stable.

My favorite naval battle would be from 1588, where ~200 English vessels met the much bigger Spanish Armada in the English Channel. The smaller and faster English ships impressively put Sun Tzu's principle of "avoid strength, attack weakness" to action by breaking up the huge, inert Spanish Galleons' formation, and attacking the ships one by one. From what I understand the Armada was not beaten or stopped that day, but the English fleet was not pulverized by the seemingly superior Spanish forces.

 

[mikelz777]

I'm in, I only have 1 soap in my "collection", no creams.

I chose the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Allied forces seized an airfield being built by the Japanese on Gualalcanal. The Japanese plan to send ground troops and equipment to retake the field as well as their plans to bombard the field to try and destroy Allied aircraft were thwarted by U.S. battleships and Allied aircraft over the course of 4 days. I think that it was was one of the turning points of the war for the U.S. Navy as they went on the offense in the Pacific.

 

[MinorDamage]

Thanks to everyone that participated! This one is going to Mikelz777. As a further point to the Naval Battles of Guadalcanal, it should be noted that it was one of the few conflicts in the Pacific theater in which the Navy had more KIA than the Marines. In fact, the ratio at Guadalcanal for KIA was more than 3:1 Navy to Marine Corps.

Josh

 

[Rodeodave]

Congrats to Mikelz777! And thanks for doing the PIF Josh!