Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "USS Independence - Guide 366" video.

  1. There were a lot of dive bombers or fighter-bombers to suppress the AA guns, but the real sinking was done by the torpedo bombers - especially since they learned the lesson from the Musashi and concentrated on one side.
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  2. No, those were escort carriers, CVEs, built on merchant hulls.
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  3. The very first Cleveland was commissioned in June 1942, so she would have missed Coral Sea, Midway, and probably the beginning of Guadalcanal as she worked up and ironed out the first-in-class issues. The Independence commissioned in January 1943, only seven months later.
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  4. Check out the USS Saipan and Wright, CVL-48 & 49.
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  5. Mine too - in Japan or Philippines?
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  6. Weren't those 1980s ships? Drach usually doesn't cover much beyond 1950.
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  7. And another in the long line of things the military didn't want and got forced to take, until they found they really needed them.
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