Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 184" video.

  1. Actually , it was a World War II ship. Cv-16 was Commissioned in Feb, 1943.
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  2.  @rogersmith7396  actually in the mid 50s a lot of the Essex class got conversions.
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  3. Nope. We talked about this last week.
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  4.  @MentalSpidec  I'm pretty sure you're never going to see a Prince Andrew, Harry or Duchess of Sussex.
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  5.  @hamishneilson7140  PBY Catalinas Did night Attacks as early as Late 1942.
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  6.  @rogersmith7396  there were three Midway's. CV-41,42 & 43. USS Midway, USS FDR & USS Coral Sea. The next class, the Forrestal did not commission till 1955. The Essex classes were given overhauls and conversions for jets, ASW use and as LPH. Lexington, Yorktown and the Intrepid in NYC are all 1950's conversions.
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  7. Actually the aircraft predates everyone thinks of.
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  8.  Ezequiel Flores  not really. They've never had large warships.
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  9. February 3rd, 1943...... Sinking of troopship USS Dorchester & loss of over 600 souls. Can we get a Wednesday Special on the 4 Chaplains story? 🤔
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  10. HE said basically the same thing. They were in the yards so they got the night groups and planes.
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  11. Changes in the treaty would have made no difference.
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  12. Just to be clear, we're talking about two entirely different airplanes that just happen to have the same name. The Spitfire you know only shares its name and designer with the other aircraft.
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  13. Without oversimplifying things, there are different types of steel alloy. They have different composition. Anyone who has seen TV shows about making knives has seen Steel in a forge. You just have to make it hot enough to be bendable to work on it.
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  14. Well that is actually the tradition of Army and Marine units. Battle honors are transferred to the unit and their flags. There are Army units with battle honors going back to their creation.
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