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4. I tip one to your father's memory.

Fri Aug 22, 2014, 01:06 PM

Aug 2014

Two of the best books I ever read about the Pacific War were about destroyers. Without 'em, there'd have been a lot of sunk battlewagons.

-- Mal

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Former Navy carrier - USS Satatoga - on final voyage [View all] Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 OP

Hey, they scrapped the Big E, didn't they? malthaussen Aug 2014 #1

Agreed. The wagons get all the glory Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #3

I tip one to your father's memory. malthaussen Aug 2014 #4

... Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #5

The last aircraft carrier named Enterprise didnt see WW II sdfernando Aug 2014 #6

CV-6 USS Enterprise was the storied Hornet-Class aircraft carrier of WW2 Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #9

Which Enterprise was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier? Brother Buzz Aug 2014 #15

CV-6 was a Yorktown class carrier. malthaussen Aug 2014 #17

Based in Mayport, Jacksonville, FL. Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #2

The ship I was on is still in service....in the Spanish Navy Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #7

... Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #8

That's the thing about WW2-era LST's... Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #10

Served for about a year and a half (1972-3) on... Wounded Bear Aug 2014 #11

The Forrestal is a sad story... Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #12

You were on the Forrest-Fire huh. denbot Aug 2014 #19

Isn't there a police department that can use her in their arsenal? Glassunion Aug 2014 #13

It would have to be a coastal PD... Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #14

I was thinking Lake Lawtonka Oklahoma Glassunion Aug 2014 #16