Comments by "Patrick Donnolley" (@ph89787) on "The Drydock - Episode 228 (Part 1)" video.

  1. I might as well throw in Hornet at Santa Cruz. Yes she did go down but that was after taking 3 dive bombs, 2 level bombs involving 1600 pounders, three Type 91 Aerial Torpedoes, 2 proto Kamikazes, 9 Mark 15 Torpedoes (debatable how many detonated) 4-500 5-Inch shells and 4 (give or take) Type 93 Long Lance Torpedoes.
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  the difference between Enterprise and Shoukaku with their bomb damage was that Enterprise could resume flight ops. Shoukaku could not.
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  3. Franklin would like a word with you. As she had basically been subjected to the “Dick Best treatment.” But those are from one occasion of being hit. Whereas Enterprise was damaged on 6 occasions and there’s a diagram of those hits from her war diary and it’s a mess. She ends up coming in third in casualties because of it.
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  4. 16:00 "The performance of duty of the officers and men on the Enterprise under fire and their effective damage control measures were outstanding, of the highest order and the most effective that I have seen in one year's service in (Task Force 58)." -Vice Admiral Marc "Pete" Mitscher after Enterprise's forward elevator went sky high on 14 May 1945.
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