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[JFM]

Good times/bad times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Calos_01]

1 hour ago, JFM said:

Good times/bad times.

Good times bad times….it reminds me of this kind of ship 😀

 

[milopugdog]

On 7/7/2023 at 5:37 PM, Calos_01 said:

Good times bad times….it reminds me of this kind of ship 😀

 

Zeppelins, you say?

[Calos_01]

6 hours ago, milopugdog said:

Zeppelins, you say?

😁 Great picture! ....but while one can reasonably hope to get Saratoga one day in this sim, I´d be just a bit skeptical about even getting the LA. 😀

[ÆþelrædUnræd]

On 7/7/2023 at 11:45 PM, JFM said:

Nice pic! I presume the letters indicate several bomb impacts/damage types? Do you happen to know what their caption says?

[JFM]

From the excellent book Shokaku-Class Aircraft Carriers, by Hans Lengere and Lars Ahlberg, page 99: "Photo taken at Truk on October 28 [1942], showing where the bombs actually hit Shokaku's flight deck. All bombs penetrated the flight deck and detonated in the hangar below. Aft, a B5N2 ("Kate") torpedo bomber that miraculously survived. "A" is the hit to port by the middle elevator, "B" caused great damage to the flight deck aft at frame 195, "C" shows the same at frame 214, and "D" is the damage at frame 188 (starboard)." The book has several amazing photos of this damage from various angles. 

I digress, but you never (at least not nearly as often) read about Japanese carriers lacking armored flight decks as compared to British carriers, only US carriers. 🤷‍♂️

[Boom]

Gotta say American ship designers did a sterling job when they came up with the design of the Essex class carriers.

IMHO they rate as amongst the best looking ships afloat during that period.

[Mysticpuma]

Enterprise

 

Lexington

Ranger

 

[Spyboy]

This was such an interesting topic that I knew not much about. Thank you to all the subscribers for the great pictures and informative contributions.

[Docjonel]

So sad that after all its service and sacrifice, that the USS Enterprise was scrapped after the war. 

Growing up in northern New Jersey I did not realize that the only substantial part of the Enterprise still existing was on display at a park in the next town less than a mile away from my house. The name plate off her stern is located near the little league fields and public library in Rivervale, New Jersey:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.008213,-74.0095091,3a,15y,22.73h,88.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suDLcG2eoEB67cMcbI6KK0g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

[BlitzPig_EL]

The costs of maintaining a museum ship are astronomical, even for a wealthy country like ours.  Restoring a warbird, or developing a flight sim are chump change in comparison.  For example, USS Texas's current dry dock period is already well in excess of $20 million US, and she is not near being finished yet.   It's simply impossible to save them all.

Sadly.

[Docjonel]

On 8/27/2023 at 9:25 AM, BlitzPig_EL said:

The costs of maintaining a museum ship are astronomical, even for a wealthy country like ours.  Restoring a warbird, or developing a flight sim are chump change in comparison.  For example, USS Texas's current dry dock period is already well in excess of $20 million US, and she is not near being finished yet.   It's simply impossible to save them all.

Sadly.

True. 

Enterprise was probably the most decorated ship with the most action to have survived the war. If you had to save only one, she would have been my pick. 

[JFM]

No doubt, and I think that’s a universal sentiment about her these days. I’ve read her campaign for a museum ship was in an era in which Americans wanted to move on from the war, and besides Texas there weren’t many viable examples of successful museum ships then like today. Maybe Texas fared better because she was associated with a state, rather than a spirit? I dunno. Nostalgia seems to run in 20-year cycles, and Enterprise hadn’t the chance to be around long enough to tap that nostalgia. Had the campaign for her being a museum ship been in 1968 instead of 58, maaaaybe we’d have her today. 🤷‍♂️

Edited August 30, 2023 by JFM
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[JFM]

HMS Hermes

 

View aboard Kaga

 

USS Enterprise

 

USS Hancock

 

Colorized view of USS Saratoga

 

HMS Victorious at Pearl Harbor

[JFM]

 

[Canvas25]

15 hours ago, JFM said:

USS Hancock

Dazzling indeed!

[InvisibleBlade]

Very cool pictures! this really gets me excited for this game! That's a very neat tidbit about the AAA fire as well.

[javelina]

imagine flying off of this:

 

 

[Trooper117]

31 minutes ago, javelina said:

imagine flying off of this:

Not much room for error there!

[JFM]

They had two catapults to get em off. Landing would be a little tight compared to CVs. Be fun for us in CP. Especially during any Battle off Samar missions! 😀

[javelina]

What is truly amazing is the amount of Material the Arsenal of Democracy could churn out at that point in time of history.  Just incredible.

[BlitzPig_EL]

The US ended the war having built a total of 97 carriers up to that time.

Great Britain had 85.

The Japanese built 24.

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by BlitzPig_EL

[javelina]

http://greatamericanships.com/ships_of_world_war_two/aircraft_carriers/

[Mysticpuma]

I met a few veterans of the 325th FG and also read many of their personal letters (supplied by them or their families).

From the 10 minute 30 second mark to the 16 minute 20 second mark of Part 1 of my Checkertail Documentaries, this covers the training, concerns and take-off from the USS Ranger as the pilots took off and headed to Casablanca, North Africa

https://vimeo.com/38294301

[wheelsup_cavu]

23 hours ago, javelina said:

imagine flying off of this:

 

 

The USS Palau (CVE-122) just missed serving in WW2 having been commissioned in January 1946.

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USS Palau (CVE–122) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.

She was laid down by the Todd-Pacific Shipyards Inc., Tacoma, Washington, 19 February 1945; launched 6 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. J. P. Whitney; and commissioned 15 January 1946.

Her 6 August 1945 launch date had much more historical significance too.

 

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