The carrier is the Yorktown, commissioned April 1943
<http://www.patriotspoint.org/exhibits/yorktown/>
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/26/2011 10:00 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> That must have been terrifying: Kamikaze attacks.
>
> Alastair MacLean's stories were great for adolescents, me included, but they
> were always so OTT with the hero's heroism and staying power. However, I'd
> be quite happy to read another one.
>
> Chris
>
> On 26 May 2011, at 12:16, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> When in Charleston, SC, years ago, I visited the riverside park where they
>> have an old diesel submarine, a WWII destroyer and a WWII aircraft carrier.
>> I'm too lazy to look up their names. The destroyer was famous for having
>> taken the greatest number of kamikaze hits in the Pacific, and I was blown
>> away (oops!) by how small it was. When the sailors called them tin cans,
>> they weren't kidding. Don't know how it could have taken one hit and stayed
>> afloat, much less multiple.
>>
>> One of my favorite books growing up was Alistair Maclean's HMS Ulysses.
>> Can't recall it it was a destroyer or a cruiser, though.
>
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