Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "USS Midway - Guide 193" video.

  1. Yeah. An interim design between the Essex Classes and the Super Carriers beginning with CV-59. As I heard it, the FDR's angled flight deck, which was something of an experiment, was so large they filled the starboard empty spaces in the hull with concrete to counter balance it. I think it was the Midway that was the carrier home ported in Japan for so long it was nick named the Midway Maru. The US definitely got their money's worth out of these ships, with them (iirc) "soldiering" on long after the last of the Essex Classes were gone. They were big enough to use the F-4 Phantom's when the older Essex classes couldn't. .
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  2. Just thought I'd mention, today as this was starting - I was thinking how much I loved the video of those old Battleships. .
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