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

  1. Could you imagine if USN keep the Midway and Coral Sea names on a pair of CVEs? That's was the original plan for the 2 named, on CVEs.
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  2. Oh, just wait, the design fun for the Midway just doesn't stop. When you add blisters to improve stability and have it backfire on you. There is a small group of men who gets to wear the patch for the mighty roll she took and almost did not come back.
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  3.  @barryjones8842  yes " Cowpens", and yes I know how the battle got its name. Still, sailors from a Flower Class Corvette bearing the name HMS Buttercup, Snowflake or Wallflower may find some comfort knowing that there is a ship named Cowpens.
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  4.  @davidb6576  thank you for the details. It's been a while since i worked with men who earned that patch.
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  5.  @shellshockedgerman3947  that was cheeky indeed 😃
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  6.  @scottgiles7546  as someone else mentioned, Midway was renamed St. Lo. So I'll just add that St. Lo was with Taffy 3 off Samar, but to be lost to Kamikaze attack the next day. It would have been fitting to grace CVN 81 with the name Midway, but it wasn't... but that's a different story.
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  7.  @Mishn0  I know Churchill is a DDG that is just over a decade old. Pretty sure same for England. But I'm a CVN guy, and will need to look it up to confirm. Nope, England name is not active and Churchill is almost 20 years old... man, I'm getting old too
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  8. Thank you ABF 🍇
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  9.  @RedXlV  yes and including USS Cow Pents. That should make any Flower Class sailor's day. 😁
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  10. Midway was proud to have kept up her sorties with just her 2 old catapults and 3 arrester wires viice the 4 n 4 that everyone else had. Told to me by her GW1 V-2 bos'n and then by her last V-2 bos'n. (V-2 has the Catapult and arresting gear ABEs). Would not be surprised if it were literal, the non- skid on the landing area gets beaten up pretty bad by the tires and the cables.
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  11. MO as in AIMD?
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  12.  @Orvilleh69  from tunnel to jeti, pax to cnal, we must have mutual acquaintances.
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  13.  @Orvilleh69  I had worked with many division officers who rotated thru N A V A I R. Had some special flight test on 73 early in 2019.
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  14. I do share some of your frustration on the naming of several CVNs. Would you mind qualifying Ford's "trumped up navy record"? Edit: wasn't trying to start a fight, and very much wanting to learn more. The GRF and the class is near and dear to me
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  15.  @robertsullivan4773  hello kindred spirit. Several decades beyond, I watched destroyers sail under the 3 bridges from Pike St or whilst riding the N train to classes near Ft Greene and then Jay St. Now my scrap book includes invitations for the christenings and commissionings from Reagan to Kennedy. Ford was a good naval officer, many air crews benefited from his early service, and so did the crew of the Monterey - which he volunteered for. He could have stayed state side, but chose to sail into harm's way. The names America and United States were front runners and I totally wanted for Enterprise for the first in class honor. The latest naming decision made me move on to other endeavors.
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  16.  @Mishn0  thumbs up on both comments!
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  17. As for naming a new ship class after a battle from the same war being a hell of a flex = Casablanca Class CVE. Embarrassed that it took 2 days to come up with it. Especially since both the Midway and Coral Sea names were originally given to the Casablanca Class.
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  18. Not sure if uglier, but definitely less stable.
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  19.    the stability issues?
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