Youtube comments of Patrick Donnolley (@ph89787).

  1. Considering Mogami had hit Imperial Japanese ARMY transports. Does it really count as friendly fire?
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  2. And through all this, Yukikaze survives.
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  3. So this is what happens when the Americans put someone who knows what the hell they’re doing in command.
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  4. IJN: I will find a level beyond a Super Battleship. USN: So what. Like a Mega Battleship, Ultra Battleship? IJN: You're mocking me. USN: Maximum Over Battleship.
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  5. Say what you will about Admiral Halsey. But I believe recommending Spruance to Nimitz as Task Force 16's CO for Midway was his best one in the war.
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  6. Admiral Kondo: This is so much easier when they’re barely shooting back. Admiral Lee: I completely agree.
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  7. Fun fact. When Enterprise was deployed to the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Some of Vestal’s crew along with Seabees from Company B of the 3rd construction Battalion were dragged along for the ride. As a result Vestal was also included in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to Enterprise.
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  8. November 1942 Saratoga: Hey what did I miss? Enterprise: Not much.
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  9. One thing both Yorktown's and Hornet's sinkings have in common. Is that damage control almost salvaged the ship but the IJN shows up at the last minute and everything becomes irrecoverable.
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  10.  @Drachinifel  Someone was using the line between madness and genius as a jump rope again?
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  11. If you really think about it. They are the IJN equivalents of Yorktown and Enterprise. Both are the respective 5th and 6th carriers of their navies. Both were 2nd generation purpose-built fleet carriers. Both were lightly designed due to the treaty limits. Both were built in the mid-late 1930s. Both were part of their navies Carrier Division 2 and led by aggressive Admirals. Tamon Yamaguchi and William F Halsey. Both had their main strike strength in the form of dive bombers, both for carrying well-trained pilots and effective aircraft like the Val and Dauntless. And in the case of Soryu, Hiryu and Yorktown, they were lost at Midway. The only thing missing is Hiryu surviving the battle and going on to be as big a menace for the US Navy (along with Shokaku and Zuikaku) as Enterprise was for the IJN
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  12. Also does Admiral Lee being a five time Olympic gold medal champion counts as overkill?
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  13. This destroyer is in the words of Jeremy Clarkson. "Speed and power."
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  14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Subs.
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  15. Johnston: We’re just Destroyers sir. We’re meant to be expendable. Captain Evans: Not to me.
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  16. Elias B Mott. High priest of the cult of Oerlikon.
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  17. One advantage Wasp had over her Yorktown half-sisters (or cousins). She had an alternating boiler and engine room set up compared to the combined arrangement used on the larger carriers. I think I bought this up in a drydock before. But Wasp was laid down a week after the 2nd London Treaty was signed which for carriers got rid of the combined tonnage limits in favour of a 23,000 tonne individual ship limit. When the ink hit the paper, someone should have called Fore River and told them to stop construction temporarily. Bring up a copy of Yorktown's blueprints from Newport news and with adjustments to the slipways and possible modifications. She could be ready to be laid down in 1937 as Yorktown-Class (plus or minus modifications to keep the deck edge elevator). Without anyone complaining as she would fit within the treaty.
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  18. I have to ask. At what point did the Bureau of Ordinance’s behaviour crossed the line between incompetence and treason.
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  19. 28:12. That particular Dauntless was flown by VS-6 pilot Lt Clarence Dickinson. Who had been shot down during the attack on Pearl Harbor and would later bomb Kaga at Midway.
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  20. Franklin: How does one defend against such power? Enterprise: A wise master does not reveal all his secrets at once. In due time, my apprentice. (For context. Enterprise and Franklin were both assigned to TG 38.4 in late 1944 and TG 58.2 during March 1945. Both times Franklin was damage Enterprise had to fill in as TG flagship.)
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  21. Oh thank goodness i don't have to wait a week.
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  22. In addition to the late and great Butch O'Hare. Another Night Ops pioneer was William "Bill" I Martin. He was deployed with VS-10 at Guadalcanal, first as XO and later as CO of the squadron. Then he transferred to VT-10 as CO while Air Group 10 was requalifying back in the States. Where he began making the squadron night qualified. In fact, he was the mastermind for the night portion of Operation Hailstone. But could not lead it due to breaking his shoulder before the start of Operation Hailstone. He was also supposed to have led a dozen Avengers on a night attack against Ozawa's carriers at the Philippine Sea. But the mess from having to recover the afternoon strike had ended that plan. After returning to the States, Martin was assigned to Night Group 90 and brought many of VT-10's pilots with him. They would lead the Air Group on their 24 December 1944-14 May 1945 deployment on Enterprise. A big highlight was being able to maintain nonstop air ops over Iwo Jima for 174 Hours
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  23. Hmm. Audacious-Class last Saturday and the Malta-Class today. Is there something you’re planning Drach?
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  24. IJN: Interesting. USN: Were you taking notes? IJN:.........No.
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  25. In before the Azur Lane fans.
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  26. Once again, I am so sorry for crashing yours, Dr Clarke’s and Dan’s lunch.
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  27. IJN: Behold our ultimate carrier! USN: That's cute. Not only will we match it in size, but we'll spam more Essexes as well.
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  28. IJN: We will make our counterattack at night. Enterprise: Neat! Who are we attacking? IJN: The US Navy carriers......Oh no. Enterprise: Hiiiii. (Enterprise launches avengers)
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  29. It was the greatest raid……………. In the World.
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  30. Ah yes, the USN's favourite duck-hunting weapon. Especially Japanese ducks.
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  31. Doesn’t this tale also apply to Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp and Princeton
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  32. Fun Fact: Saratoga's last captain was one Stanhope Ring. Yes, the same idiot who derped off with Hornet's Air Group at Midway. Also, Halsey had mentioned in his memoirs that "someone had the good sense not to anchor Enterprise at Bikini." Implying that he wasn't happy with Saratoga being used in the tests.
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  33.  @Drachinifel  Yes. Let the hate flow through you.
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  34. 6:56 The bomb hits to Hiyo were from Enterprise’s VB-10 and the torpedo was from Belleau Wood’s VT-24. Jun’yo’s hits were a bit more complicated as Enterprise’s VB-10 and Lexington’s VB-16 claimed the credit.
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  35. I should point out Drach that by the time of Pearl Harbour. That both Nakajima and Douglas ( the manufacturers of the Kate and Devastator, respectively) had stopped production of them.
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  36. 33:55. Most impressive kill with a 1.1 inch, in my opinion, was when the bow-mounted one on USS Enterprise blew off the wing of a Kate coming out from a torpedo drop at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
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  37. Rodney: Hey guys want to see a magic trick. (Obliterates tanks). Texas: That’s cool. But how about this. (Lists and continues firing).
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  38. If you really want to nitpick. You can argue that Wade McClusky, Earl Gallagher, Dick Best and Max Leslie won the Battle of Midway. As it was their Dauntlesses that planted the bombs that blew up Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and later Hiryu and Mikuma.
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  39. Battle of Tassafaronga Sailor: We lost something. Captain Rosendahl: Not to worry. We’re still floating half a ship.
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  40.  @ryanward10  lots of tea and cocaine was taken in this conversation?
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  41. Fluckey: Let's blow this popsicle stand Barb: Kaboom? Fluckey: Yes barb, kaboom. (train blows up)
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  42.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Henry Kaiser: I’m just a simple man making my way in the universe.
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  43. The Death Star?
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  44. One of the principle officers in the Revolt of the Admirals was Captain John G “Uncle John” Crommelin. Who was Enterprise’s XO during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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  45.  @luisnunes2010  define firing squad? Do you mean the traditional sense. Or having him fired out of a Battleship’s main guns?
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  46. Fun fact: 9 August 1945 (so same day as the Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki). A couple of Seafires of 880 Squadron from Implacable while operating off of Japan. Had ran low on fuel and made an emergency landing on Essex. Both planes were wrecked on landing due to the tighter arresting gear on the American Carrier.
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  47. Get ready to feel the Bearn
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  48.  @Aelxi  1945. President Truman: USS Essex. The time has come. Execute Order 66. Essex: Yes Mr President.
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  49. IJN: interesting. USN: Are you taking notes again? IJN: No. USN (pulls out spray bottle): Get out of here. IJN: Hisss
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  50.  @arionerron4273  *Angry King noises.
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  51. 6:08:33. Enterprise wasn’t trapped at Guadalcanal with the IJN. The IJN was trapped at Guadalcanal with Enterprise.
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  52. And on today's episode of Everybody loves Raymond.
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  53. The Aleutian Campaign could've been a lot bigger as a couple of months later. The IJN almost sent the combined fleet north to deal with the liberation of Attu. Which would include not only Musashi, Kongo and Haruna. But also Shokaku, Zuikaku, Jun'yo, Hiyo and Zuiho. Had such a thing happened, Nimitz would've been forced to call back several heavy units from the South Pacific. Including Saratoga and "Robin", but also sending the battered Enterprise and the new and recently commissioned Essex
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  54. 8:04. Probably a mercy for the Japanese. Considering the one thing more dangerous than the Atomic bombs was if Warspite and Enterprise were to join forces.
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  55. You can still burn the ashes
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  56. Also I’m surprised Halsey didn’t give a new order stating that anyone commanding a ship with an SG radar. Is to disregard orders to hold fire if they had a confirmed target. Edit: Alternatively (assuming he could not force his commanders to use a ship with SG radar as their flagship) is for them to treat the contact is genuine.
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  57. Fun fact, Bankstown Airport in Sydney was handed over temporarily to the British Pacific Fleet from the Royal Australian Air Force as an aircraft replenishment base.
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  58. Do you know what's a bigger flex? Photographing it with one of the carriers that won that Battle.
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  59. Speaking of which. I still find it funny that after Midway, the USAAF Bomber pilots got into a bar fight with the pilots from Enterprise and Hornet. The former claimed they sunk Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu in the earshot of those who actually did it.
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  60. 26:54. Probably a mercy for the Japanese that Warspite wasn't sent to the British Pacific Fleet. There would probably be nothing left of Japan if she and Enterprise were to join forces.
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  61. When the USN began spamming Monster reborn cards for their fleet.
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  62. Pity the other carrier wasn't named USS Deadpool.
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  63. Arashi (or whatever destroyer that was chasing Nautilus at Midway) should’ve received the Presidential Unit Citation.
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  64. The silver lining in the loss of Lexington. Was that the US Navy quickly developed procedures to reduce the risks of Avgas leaks and explosion. When a carrier is under attack.
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  65. Oh unexpected Robot Chicken reference
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  66. And why am I imagining Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean doing just that.
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  67. Also, for anyone who wants to research Spruance further, Check out his Biography, "The Quiet Warrior." By Thomas B Buell.
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  68. Fast and Furious Pacific drift. Would be the best title for what that Helmsman was doing with Enterprise.
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  69. So she, Enterprise, Saratoga and who else created the club of “They took our sisters. So we’ll take their Navy?”
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  70. She and West Virginia were the only ships to be present at both Pearl Harbour and the surrender. Pity Enterprise wasn’t among the ships present. Or the one having the Japanese sign the surrender on her flight deck.
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  71. I’ve ran into people who claim that Yorktown and Enterprise’s dive bomber squadrons should have had the hit credits removed due to them only causing the fires and damaging Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu to the point where they need to be scuttled. I don’t agree with them as you’re basically nitpicking at that point.
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  72. Vestal: ENTERPRISE NOO!! Enterprise: ENTERPRISE YES!!
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  73. Enterprise is best girl.
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  74. I imagine many submarine COs had spent the period before, during and after the debriefing with smoke rising from their heads and turning various shades of red and purple.
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  75. Still of the opinion that Cape Engano was a missed opportunity by both the USN and IJN for Enterprise and Zuikaku to have a one on one carrier battle.
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  76.  @PierreManslapper  Can't forget Dick Best.
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  77. All the Bofors and all the Oerlikons
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  78. Wouldn't star destroyers and Star Fighters be cheaper.
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  79.  @sealpiercing8476  actually power was almost restored when the Kates from Zuikaku and Jun,yo showed up.
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  80.  @claymontgomery4616  that and Enterprise surviving the damage it suffered during the war.
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  81. They were kinda the exceptions rather than the rule.
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  82. Reading up on both her and Graf Zeppelin. I'm not entirely sure if the Royal Navy was relieved or disappointed that neither Germany nor Italy built, commissioned and deploy their own Carriers.
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  83. In the shakesperian style. Horsepower! Horsepower! My kingdom for some horsepower.
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  84. One more thing. I was digging through my Grandad's service records the other day and i found out that his service on HMAS Lismore (A Bathurst-Class Corvette) was when it was deployed to the BPF.
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  85. 13:57. Thus, begins one of the bloodiest and most convoluted interservice rivalries in modern history.
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  86. Not to mention that for the most part. The Essex-Class was “Yorktown on steroids.”
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  87.  CreedOfHeresy  I heard that in addition to lacking the facilities. A reason why none of the US fleet carriers were sent to Australia for repairs during World War 2. Because Nimitz was worried MacArthur would steal them for his own uses.
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  88.  @hirisk761  I still believe that Enterprise had been with Task Force 38 when the Japanese surrendered. She should have been the ship on which the signing had taken place (with Missouri as an escort). To add salt to that wound, the Enterprise vs Japan sign should have a caption "Enterprise-1 Japan-0."
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  89.  @danielford1380  the Internet is full of people who like to split hairs on everything. Heck going even further. I’ve had people claim that carriers don’t have a kill count as the planes did all the work. Forgetting that they have their own guns. As well as a carrier’s primary weapon is their aircraft
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  90. That's not ominous.
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  91.  @Foxbat2929  oh god. There’s also a lot of people who ship (pun intended) Washington and Kirishima.
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  92. The argument between Browning and McCluskey was actually a bit bigger. As when he found out. He got VS-6 CO Earl Gallagher and Enterprise’s Captain George Murray. Also McCluskey was recovering after being shot in the shoulder and Gallagher had his back thrown out when diving on Hiryu.
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  93. One of the books I’ve been reading is Enterprise: America’s fighting ship and the Men who helped win World War 2 by Barrett Tillman. Can never learn enough about the Big E (note to self get Edward Stafford’s book on her). But it dives into the Enterprise’s service from the pre-war era all the way to decommissioning and scrapping. With all the highs, lows and shenanigans in between.
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  94. One thing you left out Drach was that Jun'yo was in the background during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. As her Zeroes first provided CAP for the damaged Hiei and the Convoy that steamed down the slot on 14 November. Of course that didn't work out when aircraft from Henderson Field and Enterprise showed up. Supposedly, one of Jun'yo's Kates had found Enterprise but by the time she launched a strike Enterprise moved on.
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  95. I think you already know this one, Drach. But there's a photo of USS Midway at the New York Naval Day parade in 1945, where she's anchored behind Enterprise. Shows how much the US Navy advanced in carrier designed from a treaty-era (albeit heavily modified) unarmoured flight deck carrier. To the enormous armoured flight deck carrier.
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  96.  @Briandnlo4  I saw that episode, and I agree that her being sent into the Pacific was a timebomb. How she ended up in the periscope of I-19 can be attributed to ignoring orders. Let me explain: The waters where she was sunk were called "Torpedo Junction" for a reason. That was where most of the IJN's subs would gather to interdict shipping. In a rare showing of backbone, Vice Admiral Robert Ghormley had ordered Task Force Commanders to try and change up their routes through the waters as much as possible. So that the subs would at least have a harder time looking for targets. Wasp's Task Force 18 Commander Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes had used the same route for his patrols. Which was against those orders. Plus, Neptune's inferno described him as unimaginative. Eventually, the IJN caught on, and the rest is history.
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  97. Enterprise: I raised that girl.
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  98. Which one was sunk by too much earth?
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  99. Aka. The Yorktown’s punching bag during 1942. Bombed by Yorktown and Lexington at Coral Sea. Splash damage from Enterprise at Eastern Solomons and bombed again by Hornet at Santa Cruz.
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  100. 11:35. That would be RADM John "Black Jack" Reeves. One thing that rained on Spruance's parade during the opening of the Saipan landings. Was that Indianapolis had picked up one LtCdr William I "Bill" Martin, CO of VT-10 from Enterprise. His Avenger was shot down near one of the landing beaches and being the only survivor had narrowly escaped being shot and captured. When he was bought aboard Indianapolis, Martin had told Spruance that the Japanese had flags planted just offshore. Spruance realised that those were markers for Artillery, explaining the high casualties for the marines on landing. The Scouting report was from Lt Stu Nelson of VT-10.
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  101. Same and those pilots were very much attached to their carriers.
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  102.  @fearthehoneybadger  Nautilus did get the Presidential Unit Citation.
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  103. Please tell me that the dumb blonde thing was just an act,
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  104. 🎵Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running🎵
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  105. Also Drach, i thought you classified the Lexingtons as tinfoil.
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  106. And Yorktown got pummeled as a result. But King was onto something, as when TF58 fought in the Battle of the Philippine Sea almost 2 years later. The advances in fighter control and radar made it possible for multiple carriers to fend off enemy attacks and seamlessly combine their air groups for their own attacks.
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  107. Because of their size, the Sangamons use the F6F Hellcat. Also, during their early careers, they would also be the only escort carriers to use dive bombers. Specifically the SBD Dauntless. Though I do need to make one correction. That the Bogue-Class Carriers Nassau and Barnes also operated 12-22 Hellcats during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands
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  108.  @artificernathaniel3287  there are a couple of Azur Lane and Kantai Collection fanfics where the destroyers are either bribed into doing stuff for ice cream. Or go on a riot because someone interfered with the supply.
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  109.  @ZekeGraal  Wasn't Halsey involved in those campaigns?
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  110. 11:21. This is the first time I've heard of this bomb and the image that came into my head was a Barracuda dropping an exploding Mickey mouse
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  111. Before he was given the same treatment as to what befalls an IJN officer that has an independent thought.
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  112.  @F-Man  Early 1943 IJN: Finally, we have destroyed the entire US Aircraft Carrier force Enterprise and Saratoga: That's odd. We're still here. IJN: How are you still alive. Enterprise: Pure vengeance Saratoga: Your Torpedoes were more of a blessing than a curse. IJN: No matter, we defeated you once. We can do it again. Enterprise: But before you do. Saratoga: We bought some new friends (Essex and Independence-Class carriers show up) IJN: Uh Oh Saratoga: Oh, that's not the worst part. Do you remember my sister Lexington? Enterprise: And my sisters Yorktown and Hornet. Along with my half-sister Wasp? IJN: Yeah, why?..... Oh no.
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  113.  @kpdubbs7117  that would require adaptability and initiative. A crime punishable in the IJN.
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  114. First, thanks for using my idea drach. Second of all. Enterprise: I don’t sleep and you won’t either.
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  115. Oh great now I'm imagining the Azur lane versions having that conversation
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  116. Bunker Hill's VB-17 would also have the unfortunate pleasure of being the first squadron to be fitted with the SB2C Helldiver.
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  117. One thing about the Yorktowns is that even when mortally wounded. They were still unbelievably tough.
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  118.  @pauldietz1325  That was Yorktown at the Battle of the Coral Sea
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  119.  @Dynasty0612  Enterprise: Hey guys wanna see a magic trick?
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  120.  @garrettwood201  yep. Powered through it with the power of coffee and hate.
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  121.  @seanbigay1042  From the end of 1944 to the end of the War. Enterprise was redesignated CV(N)-6. The N stands for "Night Carrier."
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  122. She also got bullied by Enterprise twice. Once at Midway when some of her Dauntlesses attacked her along with sinking Mikuma. 2 and a half years later at Leyte Gulf, Mogami was part of the Southern Force when Helldivers from Enterprise and Franklin attacked them. Along with Fuso and Yamashiro.
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  123. Pffft nah.
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  124. If CarDiv 5 is replaced with CarDiv 2 at Coral Sea. It might be a bloodier tactical victory for the IJN. If I recall Shattered Sword correctly, Soryu and Hiryu had highly trained and experienced pilots. But their main strength came from Dive Bombing. So highly likely that Lexington may take 3 Torpedoes and another 1 or 2 Bomb hits. Which may sink Lexington outright. Whereas Yorktown may avoid the Torpedoes, she may take similar damage to Enterprise at Eastern Solomons. So 3-4 550lb Bomb hits, which is survivable but would mean Yorktown would not entirely be ready for Midway. Unless the damage control crews and later the shipyard workers at Pearl Harbor are being Intravenously fed coffee. Soryu is smaller than Shokaku and arguably more maneuverable. The issue is that she is also more fragile regarding bomb hits. For the sake of argument, Soryu still takes 3 hits. The explosions could catch something flammable like her Avgas system, even without aircraft in the hangar. Also, if one of the hits lands next to her stack, like at Midway and penetrates the lower hangar. Then it could damage or destroy her boiler and engine rooms leaving her dead in the water. Fast forward to Midway, and Shokaku and Zuikaku, for the sake of argument, are loaded with the same numbers of Aircraft as at Coral Sea. That's 21 Zeroes for Shokaku and 25 Zeroes for Zuikaku. 20 Vals for Shokaku and 22 Vals for Zuikaku, and 19 and 20 Kates for Shokaku and Zuikaku, respectively. Also, there are deck plans of Shokaku and Zuikaku's hangar decks, complete with aircraft spots. Assuming that the events leading up to and during the "Dauntless Ex Machina" occur similarly. Shokaku may end up like Franklin in that it would be a long, bloody and fiery battle with a slight chance of survival. But without the redundancies in here, damage control systems and the open hangar to vent the explosions, fire and smoke. She may go the same way as Akagi and Kaga. Zuikaku if caught in the same circumstances as Hiyru (closed in on TF16 and TF17 and lost most of its air group). Then it could take the 4x 1000lb bomb hits. As Shokaku survived a similar number at Santa Cruz. Of course, if those aircraft are full and ready for another strike, it would cause a fuel-air explosion. Resulting in Zuikaku being sunk outright or being scuttled. Being close to Midway would mean that even if the damage control crews worked through the night to get the fires under control. She may be spotted and tracked by radar-equipped PBYs and be finished off by Enterprise and Hornet the following morning.
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  125. Still of the view that King prematurely removed him from the Guadalcanal Campaign (Saratoga's luck with Torpedoes notwithstanding). While the IJN had their carriers as a credible threat, it was a bad idea.
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  126. 25:44. I believe this quote from Prince Zuko sums up the following. “You rise with the moon. I rise with the sun.” Yes I do know the irony given the Japanese flag is the rising sun.
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  127. I like the idea that the battle drifts closer and closer to Samar. That Taffey 3 just jumps in anyway.
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  128. Zuikaku sunk Lexington and she was sunk by Lexington. Also at Cape Engano, one of Enterprise’s VT-20’s Avengers had slowed down and rendered “final honours” to Zuikaku. Specifically one of the gunners sticking the finger up at the crew.
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  129. "Enterprise, I'm back."
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  130. Q&A As a naval historian and engineer. What is your guilty pleasure ship? As in a ship that has some noticeable and possible infamous flaws. But for some reason, you still love it anyway.
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  131. 16:35 Alternatively Shinano gets spotted by aircraft and goes the way of Yamato and Musashi in being dog piled by Task Force 38/58.
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  132. Considering it was one turret. Warspite more or less back handed the trawler.
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  133.  @BHuang92  Oh, definitely. I'm just saying that Hiryu may have had a chance to take that position if she was withdrawn from the Battle of Midway. Rather than trying to close with Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet.
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  134. I have waited years for his one.
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  135. My uni diet occasionally resembled the IJN's diet during World War 2. In that there's a lot of curry.
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  136. THIS IS SPARTA!
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  137. Here. Here.
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  138. Fun Fact Drach. One of my uncles served as a harbor pilot in Melbourne.
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  139.  @Aelxi Soryu and Shangri-La tied for best Megane carrier.
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  140. If some of the stories about her crew patching up Yorktown between Coral Sea and Midway are true. She’s basically the entire class’s repair ship/ babysitter.
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  141. It also goes to the old quote. “Just because you have it. Doesn’t mean you know how to use it.” For example, during the Night brawls at Guadalcanal. Most of the USN ships had radar (of various types). But it’s basically worth screw all if the guy looking at the screen can’t tell the difference between a ship and an island.
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  142.  @bostonrailfan2427  not necessarily. Yorktown was using Saratoga’s Air group during that Battle. So those pilots are already quite experienced. Though in Saratoga herself, she had a new air group which had yet to see Battle. However if they were to follow Yorktown’s lead. The extra fighters and bombers may mean the Hiryu gets hit at the same time as the other carriers.
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  143.  @garrettwood201  by that point in the war. Enterprise was the most experienced carrier in the fleet.
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  144. CLARKSON!!!!
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  145.  @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe  Samuel Elliot Morrison
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  146.  @patrickwentz8413  more than likely it’s a “swing and miss” attack. But it’s a joke on how the interservice rivalry between the IJN and IJA can get bloody. Honestly I’m kinda surprised and disappointed that they didn’t try to sabotage their operations as much as fight the allies.
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  147. And those fish now have their own civilisation in Bikini Atoll.
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  148.  @issacfoster1113  Albacore is planning the welcome party.
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  149. Somehow. LtCdr Mott’s suggestion for fitting every space on Enterprise with 20 mms found it’s way into the Royal Navy.
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  150. They tried. But at the time when someone remembered to salvage the killboards before her scrapping. They had deteriorated to the point that barely anything could be made out.
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  151. Donald “Flash” Gordon. Said on Battle 360 that Enterprise ended up piping over 25 Gallons (95 litres) of Ice Cream.
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  152. The most famous grudge match in the pacific. Shokakus vs Yorktowns
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  153. The Wasp question came about from learning international law and treaties at Uni. Given Wasp’s keel laid down a week after the 2nd London Treaty was signed. I found it a missed opportunity by the USN to start world war 2 with 6 effective fleet carriers. Rather than 4 effective fleet carriers and 2 glass cannons.
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  154. Franklin D Roosevelt: Magnificent aren’t they?
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  155.  @philvanderlaan5942  satirical
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  156. You know your design is bad/useless when Ching Lee thinks it's a bad idea.
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  157.  @bkjeong4302  and of course Lexington going up like a Roman candle and Yorktown later being sunk at Midway.
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  158.  @kostakatsoulis2922  That would've been fun as North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, and Massachusetts were in the Pacific (South Dakota and Alabama were with the British Home Fleet). But the big wildcard would be the weather. In addition to the cold and fog. The waters around the archipelago are rough. The Nevada, Idaho and Pennsylvania had to raise their guns to keep them above the waves. Which also, would have made carrier ops for both sides very interesting.
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  159. Jeremy Clarkson: Speed and power solves many things.
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  160. Btw Drach. The pilot of the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog was Major Ly Buang of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force. He took (stole) the plane and flew himself, his wife and 5 children onto Midway.
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  161. Where incompetence meets treason.
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  162. And I just heard Jeremy’s James’s and Richard’s voices.
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  163. (Looks through the comments). Oh christ Drach is going to have Animarchy induced PTSD.
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  164.  @jeffreyskoritowski4114  Enterprise: You seem to be doing fine by yourself.
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  165. A kill’s a kill. But part of me wishes she was completed if for the only reason to see how much effort TF38/58 would put in to sinking her compared to her older sisters.
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  166. Not to mention the Destoryers spent just as much time haggling with the carriers for Ice Cream as much as protecting them.
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  167. 6:02 Fun fact. Commodore John Collins is a distant relative from my dad’s side of the family. As in after the war he married a cousin of my grandma
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  168.  @mikeynth7919  SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!
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  169. I’d put Shokaku in for the Japanese category. As she took 3 bombs at Coral Sea. Shrapnel damage at Eastern Solomons and 3-6 1000lbs bombs at Santa Cruz. Her sinking at Philippine Sea in many ways was the US Navy getting back at the IJN for what happened to Wasp. But at the same time it feels like a Deus Ex Machina.
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  170.  @hammer1349  My body lies under the ocean. My body lies under the sea. My body lies under the ocean. Wrapped up in an SB2C.
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  171.  @TheDoctorMonkey  thanks Dan.
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  172.  @connorgraham6940  that’s probably what the IJN rationalised every time they ran into Enterprise after they claimed she was sunk.
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  173. Tennessee: Hey Tang. Tang: Sup Tennessee. Tennessee: Where is it? Tang: Where’s what? Tennessee: My Ice Cream Machine. Tang: About that….. YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! (Dives into the water). Tennessee: Come back here you sardine can. (Charges after her) (Cue Benny Hill).
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  174. 1943: IJN: Finally we have destroyed the entire US Aircraft Carrier force Enterprise and Saratoga: That's odd. We're still here. IJN: How are you still alive. Enterprise: Pure vengence Saratoga: Honestly your Torpedoes were more of a blessing than a curse. IJN: No matter we defeated you once. We can do it again. Enterprise: But before you do. Saratoga: We bought some new friends (Essex and Independence-Class carriers show up) IJN: Uh Oh Saratoga: Oh that's not the worst part. You remember my sister Lexington? Enterprise: And my sisters Yorktown and Hornet. Along with my part sister Wasp? IJN: Yeah, why?..... Oh no.
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  175. Also. Didn’t Nimitz refer to Shokaku and Zuikaku as “those two carriers.” Due to how much trouble they caused for him and the US Navy during 1942.
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  176. Wasn’t there a number of reserve ships at the end of World War 2 also held to be museums? ‘Cough’ Enterprise ‘cough.’
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  177. To think that at roughly the same time. The US was also launching Operation Forager (invasion of the Marianas).
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  178. Did the guy who designed G6 also talked to the same genius who recommended fitting the Yorktowns with 8-inch guns?
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  179. Akagi: We shall hit Midway and lure out the American carriers. (At Pearl Harbour) Yorktown: Sisters it’s hunting season. Enterprise: Fox Season. Yorktown: Rabbit Season. Hornet: Squirrel. Yorktown and Enterprise: Damnit Hornet.
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  180. bairdrew The grey ghost and the old lady. That would have been a sight.
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  181. King, Lee, Fisher, Cunningham (Part 1) and now Nimitz.
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  182. 2:11 Or friendly fire incidents. For example during the bombardment of Henderson field. Where a few rounds were ‘accidentally aimed in the wrong direction’. Hit IJA positions on Guadalcanal.* *This entire scenario was made up. But I’m surprised it did not happen.
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  183.  @ramal5708  In Battle 360 (the episode on Midway) Dusty Kleiss said that whenever the Mess was serving Steak and Eggs that it was “a busy day.” While Lloyd Childers a tail gunner for VT-6 (yes the one with the Devastators) said that he heard some joked about it being “Last meal for the condemned men.”
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  184. Also the radar was fitted in September 1942. So they wouldn’t have had it at Midway. Unless Midway was delayed till October 1942.
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  185. The way she went down was similar to what I-19 did to Wasp (CV-7). Torpedoed while in the middle of flight operations.
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  186. I mean Enterprise was fueled by hatred from that curse. Given that Yorktown and Hornet were sunk by the end of 1942. Had to witness the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and The near destruction of her Torpedo squadron at Midway
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  187. The Grillo looks like something Jeremy Clarkson would come up with for shits and giggles.
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  188.  @FLJBeliever1776  supposedly a number of Task Force 38’s aircraft especially those from Enterprise. Witnessed it and the pilots and gun crews stuck the finger up in response.
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  189. RIP USS Helena.
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  190. Yorktown & Enterprise: That's enough repairs. I'm going back to sinking ships.
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  191. Scharnhorst: Sis. Gneisenau: Ja? Scharnhorst: There’s an oil tanker heading straight for us. Gneisenau: Oh cool, that’s another kill for us. (Scharnhorst looks again before breaking out in a cold sweat). Scharnhorst: Sis. When did the Brits build oil tankers with 16-inch guns? Gneisenau (cold sweat): They don’t. (Rodney comes over the horizon). Rodney: Hiiiiii. Scharnhorst: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
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  192. I know that when Victorious (I mean Robin) served the Solomons with Saratoga. That the two had exchanged squadrons, where Victorious got all the fighters and Saratoga got all the Dive and Torpedo Bombers.
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  193. Well KGV would've been happy for having a hand in wiping out both Bismarck-Class Battleships. Renown gets to a chance to test her mettle against a Battleship and pray to all that is holy she doesn't go the way of Hood. While DoY goes for an enthusiastic walk.
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  194. Random fact. When Enterprise (CV-6) was being converted to night operations at the end of 1944. Her centre propellers were replaced with a 5 (quintuple) blade model. That was supposed to reduce vibrations in high speed maneuvering
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  195. Short of dark magic.
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  196. Coral Sea-Shoho and Lexington. Midway-Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu and Yorktown. Eastern Solomons-Ryujo Santa Cruz-Hornet. Philippine Sea-Shokaku, Taiho and Hiyo. Cape Engano-Zuikaku, Chiyoda, Chitose and Zuiho.
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  197. All those battles had at least one Yorktown-Class present. Coral Sea-Yorktown Midway-Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet Eastern Solomons-Enterprise Santa Cruz-Enterprise and Hornet. Philippine Sea-Enterprise Cape Engano-Enterprise.
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  198. I refuse to live in a world where a Japanese carrier is preserved and not Enterprise.
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  199. Words to live by.
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  200.  @joechang8696  To be fair to Halsey. No one understood the implications that the destruction of pilots would be more harmful to the IJN than their carriers. The US Navy still believed until Leyte Gulf that as long as the IJN still had carriers it would remain a threat to the fleet.
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  201. In Azur lane, that sentence takes a literal meaning.
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  202.  @Drachinifel Still a great video though.
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  203.  @issacfoster1113  Arleigh Burke, the destroyer god.
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  204. TraMaChi Considering there was a near coup by the Japanese military just before the Emperor’s surrender announcement. Not even dropping Stewie and Peter Griffin on Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have made them quit.
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  205. Q&A-Hypothetically, regardless of any casualties to the Eastern Fleet. How does the IJN go forward with the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway having only CarDivs 1 and 5 making up the Kido Butai?
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  206. The Yandere Fox waifu.
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  207. I do find it interesting (though purely by coincidence) that the two carriers Halsey served aboard; Saratoga and Enterprise. Were both back in Hawaii and the mainland US when he ploughed TF38 into Typhoons Cobra and Connie.
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  208.  @LaraineBouguer  it helped that Enterprise had a Battleship to serve as an escort and a distraction for the IJN pilots
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  209.  @SonOfAB_tch2ndClass  I was waiting for the Azur Lane comments to pop up
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  210. World War 2 but the IJN and IJA have firebenders is a frightening prospect
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  211. I think that's a universal requirement for any politician regardless of leanings.
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  212. 54:13. That’s the one thing that often baffles me with this myth. As what exactly can Fletcher do with Saratoga, Enterprise and Wasp in this scenario. Because sending them into the battle was suicide. The US navy has not developed a night carrier doctrine at that point. Detaching any of the escorts would have made the carriers vulnerable. So there was honestly not much that he can do.
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  213. Alternate History: US Navy in the 1930s decide to take a ‘Quality over quantity’ approach when designing Yorktown and Enterprise and build them to 27,000 ton limit. With the treaty tonnage used up, how would it affect the development of Wasp, Hornet and the Essex-Class?
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  214. Speaking of the Oberons Drach. If you find your way out to Australia, HMAS Onslow is docked next to HMAS Vampire (Daring-Class Destroyer) at the Sydney Maritime Museum.
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  215. 26:08. Also by December, USS Saratoga would return and Admiral King (to in his mind eternal shame) borrowed HMS Victorious (USS Robin) from the Royal Navy at the start of 1943.
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  216. And then later in 1942, you have Enterprise participating in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal with her repair division, a Seabee battalion and some of Vestal's crew repairing her.
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  217.  @CSSVirginia  boom
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  218. Still waiting for the U.S. Navy to name some of their remaining Gerald R Ford-Class Carriers the following; Yorktown, Hornet, Lexington, Saratoga and Ranger
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  219. Hypothetically, if Somerville had successfully taken out (temporarily or permanently) Soryu and Hiryu. What does that leave the IJN in terms of their carrier ops. They would still have Akagi, Kaga, Shokaku and Zuikaku. But do they still send two carriers to Coral Sea? Do they send all 4 to Coral Sea? Is Coral Sea scrapped and all 4 deployed to Midway?
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  220. Speaking of which. When Burke was reassigned as Mitscher’s chief of staff. Mitscher jokingly ordered a Marine Sentry to ‘secure Captain Burke’. One time when a destroyer came alongside for refueling.
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  221. I have been waiting for ages for this one. Keep up the good work Drach
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  222. 10:26. Jack C Taylor served in Essex's VF-15 "Satan's Playmates" and USS Enterprise (CV-6)'s VF-20 "Jokers."
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  223.  @strawberrydragon1  MVP for that was Bruno Gaido. Also shows that the SBD Dauntless can double as an Anti- Air battery.
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  224.  @ComradeArthur  On Battle 360, one of Enterprise's sailors described there was more quad 40s than he can remember.
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  225. 19:18: Taffy 3: You summoned us?
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  226.  @grahamstrouse1165  Isn’t that Space Battleship Yamato?
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  227. As an Australian. That idea would have made the Eastern Front look like a walk in the park.
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  228. This wasn't getting Rodney into gun range of Bismarck. This would be punch in the face range.
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  229. 2:22. A practice apparently continued by the Royal Navy’s destroyers in World War 2
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  230. Hi Australian here. Actually the plan was that if Japan had lost the plot and decided to invade Australia. Was to give up the northern half of the country. Basically evacuate everyone, remove or destroy everything of value and let them have it. The defence line was the “Brisbane Line.”
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  231.  @laggerstudios3392  He was
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  232. Enterprise's crew celebrated when they found out Shokaku was sunk.
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  233.  @thepulle4722  They supposedly had a nickname called 'the old maid'.
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  234.  @JAAGen01  Unfortunately Enterprise isn't on that list.
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  235. Oh, the amount of times I've turned the Atlanta in WOWS into a floating minigun.
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  236.  @BleedingUranium  yeah. But the poetic justice argument can be applied to Enterprise as well. After all, the Japanese had started the pacific war from the deck of an aircraft carrier. It’s only fair to have them sign the surrender on one as well. Especially the carrier which took out half the Kido Butai including the flagship.
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  237.  @kemarisite  Had a distant relative serving on her.
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  238. Yamamoto: And this is my problem because?
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  239. So just like in your Task Force 34 video. Lee would have been responsible for the near single handed extinction of the Kongo-Class.
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  240. That plan seems like something Jeremy Clarkson would come up with.
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  241.  @bkjeong4302  also in the early war. Good old fashion racism helped the Japanese. As the allies initially underestimated them.
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  242.  @SPR-Ninja  Waiting for that one.
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  243. Q&A. Considering how old they were and the construction of new Fast Battleships. Was there any proposal to have the Battleships caught in the Pearl Harbor attack scrapped rather than repaired?
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  244. Scrap iron flotilla vs Taffey 3 (minus escort carriers) that would be fight for the ages
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  245. Pity about Admiral King’s apocalyptic hatred of the Royal Navy. As a joint operation involving both Enterprises to mentally mess with the IJN general staff would be hilarious.
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  246. Enterprise and Yorktown: Eat Dauntlesses.
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  247. The only use is for the submariners to beat up the Bureau of Ordinance pukes who thought the Mark 14 was perfect.
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  248. Independence would also be the first carrier to be fitted with a Night Air Group (Air Group 41) between August 1944-January 1945. Her Night Fighter Squadron, VF(N)-41, would have the highest kill count of any Night Fighter Squadron. Independence and supposedly Bataan were also supposed to join Enterprise as part of the new Night Carrier Task Group, Task Group 38/58.5, formulated by Admiral King. However, only Independence would join Enterprise in that role when the latter was converted to night ops and loaded with Night Air Group 90. Both Carriers participated in the invasion of Luzon and the South China Sea Raid. However, issues with Independence's size (I think) meant that the USN decided that a light carrier was no longer suitable for night operations. So, she was converted back to Day ops. Saratoga and later Bonhomme Richard joined Enterprise in the Night Carrier Task Group.
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  249.  @Caktusdud.  2 actually. Although Azur lane is a gacha game and Exodia is a card from the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card came that has an automatic win condition Edit: I mean that Exodia was a set of 5 cards that come together to automatically win a duel.
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  250. I can imagine that when you saw the Shipfu question Drach. That you were thinking on how to keep mini-Drach away from it all costs.
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  251. 38:08 no prizes for this photo as that’s from Zuikaku. But when Zuikaku was being abandoned and the crew was gathering on the flight deck. One of Enterprise’s Avengers flew past and did their own “final honours”. Specifically sticking the finger up at the crew. Zuikaku’s crew weren’t happy with that.
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  252. On the other hand. Fleet Admiral’s pay was frozen in the 50s. While Spruance’s Admiral’s pay went up. So he made more money than Halsey in retirement.
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  253.  @Strelnikov403  hopefully
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  254.  @TheEDFLegacy  Meanwhile on USS Washington. Vice Admiral Willis Ching Lee is doing skeet shooting with her secondary battery.
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  255. Marblehead's Bizarre Adventure.
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  256. Wasn’t there one mounted on Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz that knocked out a Kate just as it was pulling up from its torpedo run?
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  257. Saipan is the bane of my World of Warships Blitz experience (sooo many Corsairs). On a brighter note. One of her Captains was William (Bill) I Martin. One of Enterprise’s regular pilots and the CO of VS-10, VT-10 and Night Air Group 90. He was in command of Saipan between 1955-56.
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  258.  @bkjeong4302 in terms of career and ability to take hits yes. But Shokaku and Zuikaku were similar to the Essexes in being built outside the treaty limits and being evolutions of the previous class. Shokaku being an evolution of Hiryu and Essex being an evolution of Yorktown.
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  259.  @johnbuchman4854  2 years too early.
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  260.  @bkjeong4302  Just Musashi, Kongo and Haruna.
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  261. There’s actually a sketch somewhere of what Kaga looked like after being hit (minus the fire). Essentially there’s a massive hole where the back half of the flight deck used to be and its down to the water line.
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  262. Thanks for answering my question. Also, I think in terms of plot armor. I think it would be closer to compare Enterprise with Illustrious.
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  263. Finally, can Shinano qualify as part of the “carriers that make Ranger look useful” list?
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  264.  @bkjeong4302  Both the Mori and Shimazu clans were also pains in the neck to Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu's plans for reunification.
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  265. Marcy: Nat 20 baby.
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  266. 46:23. I do wonder if someone was to think of a commander, captain or admiral, they would immediately associate it with a particular ship Cunningham-Warspite Sommerville-Warspite, Hood and Renown Crutchley-Warspite Nelson (Admiral, not battleship)-Victory. Vian-Formidable Halsey-Enterprise, New Jersey or Missouri. Lee-Washington Spruance-Enterprise or Indianapolis Fletcher-Yorktown or Saratoga. Mitscher- Hornet (CV-8-still captain), Lexington (CV-16), Bunker Hill or Enterprise Lutjens-Bismarck. Bey-Scharnhorst. Cilax-Scharnhorst. Yamamoto-Nagato, Yamato or Musashi Nagumo, Akagi. Tamaguchi-Hiryu Ozawa-Taiho. Kurita-Yamato.
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  267.  @claymontgomery4616  Also all of those weaknesses can be traced back to the Washington Naval Treaty.
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  268.  @demonprinces17  again had the final wave of Torpedo Bombers never showed up (or were all shot up). The damage control crews nearly had the power back on.
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  269.  @bkjeong4302  Unless of course something like what happened to Glorious occurs.
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  270. And for shits and giggles. They named CV-38 Shangri-La.
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  271. The Japanese took her sisters. So she took their navy.
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  272.  @YuriXEstelle  Not just a crewman. But a Hellcat pilot
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  273. Its why i'm a bit skeptical of Drach putting her above the Yorktowns as a capable treaty era carrier
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  274. When you mentioned God. The first time I thought you were referring to Warspite instead of Prince Phillip.
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  275. I'm of the view that Browning was one of those officers that can only work as a subordinate. Or adult supervision.
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  276. On the other side of the coin. If Hornet was captured by the IJN after Santa Cruz. A lot of heads would roll.
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  277. Two days of Jon Parshall? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  278. Enterprise: Welcome to the club
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  279. To borrow a quote from Prince Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender. "You (The IJN) rise with the moon. I (USN) rise with the sun
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  280. (6 April 1942). IJN: We have sunk the Enterprise. (4 June 1942) IJN: What do you mean we lost our carriers to the Enterprise?
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  281. 8:16 after coming out of repairs. Caused by a kamikaze dauntless at Guadalcanal courtesy of VB-10 from USS Enterprise.
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  282.  @AnonNomad  To defeat the Hun (Yes that's what the Germans were called in both wars)
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  283.  @gregorywright4918  to be fair. Everything looks the same above a certain altitude. In shattered sword, a pilot from either Enterprise and Hornet thought Mogami and Mikuma were battleships.
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  284. Enterprise: So, what’s your claim to fame? Turtle Ship: I stopped a Japanese invasion of Korea, precisely because I was covered in armour and had a load of cannons, meaning I was close to unboardable. What about you? Enterprise: Let me tell you how my sisters and I once stopped a Japanese offensive with 3 squadrons of Dauntlesses. Turtleship: What’s a Dauntless? Enterprise: Little blue dragons that love diving on ships. Especially other carriers.
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  285. I’d say it was naming Raymond Spruance as Task Force 16 (Enterprise and Hornet) Commander.
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  286. Albacore: Yay! New friends. Taiho: No you don’t.
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  287. Even if it’s from one character. The late Bill Norberg served as Captain’s Yeoman for all of Big E’s wartime career.
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  288. Considering their age at the start of World War 2, were any of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Large Cruiser designs considered replacements for the Kongo-Class Battleships/Battlecruisers.
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  289.  @soarinskies1105  Admiral Kondo: (cuts the seaman’s head off)
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  290. Animarchy finishing his Enterprise series and this video. It has been a good week.
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  291. Saratoga: Am I a Joke to you?
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  292. On the issue of the RAN having an Ark Royal. If it lasts long enough in Europe. The earliest it can be available for the Pacific might be in time for Guadalcanal. Assuming MacArthur doesn’t hijack it for Papua New Guinea. But if it is and it has the radar equipped aircraft, better fighter coordination and pilots trained for night ops available. Fletcher’s and by extension Ghormley’s life would be slightly easier. As it could be available for to disrupt the IJN night bombers. Warn about Mikawa’s approach down the slot. Or at the very least turn the 1st Battle of Savo Island into a Japanese Pyrrhic victory. Also with four carriers Fletcher may have a better time at Eastern Solomons. Even if Enterprise was still damaged, a larger more coordinated strike may raise the possibility of the Shokakus being either sunk. Or incapacitated for the rest of 1942.
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  293. To Task Force 64 and Washington, Hiei and Kirishima are pinatas.
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  294.  @bkjeong4302  The late Bill Norberg said that when word got back to Enterprise of Shokaku’s loss. The entire crew celebrated.
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  295. One thing about Saratoga you missed out on. Was that that Halsey was one of her captains. When he transitioned from Destroyers to Carriers.
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  296.  @jonathanwhite5132  As much as I like Halsey. I feel that Spruance needs more attention
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  297.  @AlteryxGaming  Navy Department: For the next magic trick. Who wants to see 175 Fletcher-Class destroyers appear from thin air?
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  298. IJN: Ok, we dodged the subs. (The sky starts to speak in R-2800 twin wasp ).
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  299. Also because I’m a weeb. OWARI DA!
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  300.  @wolffweber7019  ironically. That bomb hit was from either the Essex versions of Yorktown and Hornet.
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  301. I've been begging for a Deep Dive on this raid for years on the Patreon.
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  302.  @asianbandit4054  she would’ve been at Eastern Solomons had Fletcher not mistimed sending her south for refueling. How much impact Wasp would have is anyone’s guess.
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  303.  @shawnc1016  And even then, Hiryu and I think Akagi still took their sweet time in sinking.
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  304. A part of me wishes that at some point during 1942 that the Royal Navy had sent a force to Guadalcanal.
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  305.  @PeteOtton  Speaking of Fletcher. Joseph "Jocko" Clarke was XO on Yorktown for those early raids and was pissed off that Fletcher and Yorktown's Captain Elliot Buckmaster were consulting the younger pilots instead of someone like him who has more experience. In someways, dismissing Fletcher after Saratoga's torpedoing at the end of August actually set the Guadalcanal Campaign back. As he was the USN's most experienced carrier admiral. At a time when the IJN's carriers were still a potent threat.
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  306.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Enterprise (nearby): Anyone getting a sense of Deja Vu?
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  307.  @issacfoster1113  Good looking ships. But if I’m fighting in a naval battle. I would rather take my chances on a Yamato.
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  308. Also, good to see Trent back.
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  309. Yay! I don’t have to wait another month for it.
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  310. Oscarberg Fortress: Mwahahahahahahahahahah
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  311. Signature looks of superiority
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  312. Or Warspite .
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  313. Drach's best girl.
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  314. Wait till you see Ranger, Yorktown, Enterprise and Wasp using biplanes.
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  315. With Yorktown’s wreck being in mostly one piece and Hornet’s wreck being so well preserved that you can still see the paint. They’re similar to Enterprise in that they won’t die.
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  316. I'm getting freaked out by watching this on YouTube. So congrats on making it up the mast despite the vertigo.
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  317.  @drakron  As mentioned by his Drachness and mentioned in multiple sources from the period and afterwards. The US Military would rather leave the Aleutians alone and let the Japanese Garrison die of frostbite (or the White Walkers). However, due to it technically being a US Territory, that strategy didn't sit well with the civilian population or politicians. So Nimitz wouldn't send his first-rate fleet units north for that campaign alone. Now, if the IJN decided to sortie to Combined Fleet. Then, the argument is how quickly appropriate units can be assembled. Nimitz would see it as an opportunity to wipe out a good chunk of the IJN's battle line and carriers before the Central Pacific Drive later that year. The IJN, by 1943, were starting to see the Aleutians as a backwater front and were only holding on as a matter of pride. I think it's the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast episode on Attu or the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. Seth Peridan or Jon Parshall said that there was a fear within the IJN that there was a risk of this theatre turning into another Guadalcanal. A massive slugfest with lives lost and ships sunk with little to gain from. So, the attempted sortie by the Combined Fleet was more done out of a belated attempt to relieve the Garrison stationed there. But with the loss of Attu and no major US Ships or forces in that part of the world (not even the Grey Ghost). There was nothing to be gain outside of pride, spite or Nimitz does send something worth the time.
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  318. Still of the view that the torpedo damage to North Carolina was a contributing factor to the loss of Hornet at Santa Cruz.
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  319. Shinanope.
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  320. Drach’s hatred of the 25 millimetre sustains me
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  321. In Barrett Tillman's book on Enterprise. Her cooking (pre-war era) was so good that on movie nights while the PacFleet was in port. Crews from the other ships would come aboard for dinner.
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  322. Well Susanoo was the Shinto thunder god and the younger brother of Amaterasu. So I wouldn’t put it pass the IJN resorting to divine intervention or dark magic to try and stop the allies.
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  323. Eliza Nygma he is simply one hell of a butler.
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  324.  @rickkennett3192  pulp fiction.
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  325.  @bostonrailfan2427  That was after midway.
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  326.  @MrDavePed  really. Lexington’s loss comes down to inexperience in handling an avgas leak.
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  327. I think that was Zuikaku and that's a joint one with Yorktown.
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  328. All that was missing was the crew doing the Haka before every battle.
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  329.  @larshenrik8900  they had an unarmoured flight deck.
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  330. Had Stanhope Ring and the rest of Hornet’s air group followed John Waldron and VT-8. What are the chances of them inflicting some form of damage to the Kido Butai and how would it affect the rest of the battle?
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  331. Submarine Crews: GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sub crews pull out torches and pitch forks).
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  332. Or the Fire Nation ships. Nelsons with catapults.
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  333. 28:57 plus or minus some grumbling from the IJN ranks at being denied glorious battle.
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  334. Chief Yeoman Bill Norberg mentioned that Enterprise’s crew was cheering when word got back to them about Shokaku’s loss at Philippine Sea. Later Zuikaku was at the top of Enterprise’s hit list at Leyte Gulf and a VT-20 pilot mentioned that when he passed Zuikaku when it was going down. He gave “final honours” to them.
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  335.  @bkjeong4302  As a form of revenge. VB-10 decided that New Jersey would make for a great Dive Bombing target. At least until New Jersey threatened to make the Dauntlesses as AA Targets.
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  336. That’s an Azur Lane reference wasn’t it?
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  337. 35:21. Yorktown at Midway and Enterprise at Guadalcanal were held together with spitballs and hope and still did ok.
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  338.  @bkjeong4302  yeah. The guy in question stated that because Saratoga was at Pearl Harbour. She still counted as in theatre. Even though she was under repairs for her torpedo damage. He goes onto say that because Saratoga had left Pearl Harbour on November 12. Then technically Enterprise wasn’t the sole US carrier in the Pacific. Even though Saratoga wouldn’t arrive at Noumea until December 5. When the Japanese were almost ready to give up on Guadalcanal.
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  339. Enterprise?
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  340.  @jameshealy4594  for Enterprise’s crew it was personal as they had fought Shokaku and Zuikaku twice at Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz back in 1942.
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  341. 15 March 1952 Wisconsin: FULL BROADSIDE!!!!!!!!!! (Obliterates North Korean Shore Battery) Wisconsin: GOT HIM!!! Merry Christmas to Wisconsin! Buck: Wisconsin, no! Wisconsin: Wisconsin yes.
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  342. I think I told you, Dr Clarke and Dan about this when I crashed your lunch in Brisbane (once again I apologise for that). But my Uncle Jim was supposedly on Canberra when she was sunk.
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  343. Having recently got the Atlanta and Akatsuki. I’m already having PTSD.
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  344.  @knskumo  yep
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  345. Also think of the patronage from not just the regular historical crowds. But also from trekkies and Azur Lane degenerates.
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  346. 🎵United forever in friendship and labour, Our mighty republics will ever endure.🎵
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  347. You think after Savo Island and the night of November 13. The US Navy would have learned something.
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  348.  @Joshua-fi4ji  A fellow Yorktown-Class enjoyer.
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  349. The Midways were still lighter at 45,000 tonnes. Now the Forrestals however came in at 81,000 tonnes at full load.
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  350. Speaking of which. Halsey would have been kept in the loop (so to speak) as to what’s happening. Once he hears Task Force 34 engaging centre force. Combined with the Northern Force barely putting up a fight. He may order one or two of the carrier groups to double back and launch an air strike at Kurita in support.
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  351. Post Ormoc Bay. "Speed and torpedo power doesn't work." -Shimakaze, possibly.
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  352.  @LuvLikeTruck  I think that’s only allied destroyers.
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  353.  @AnimeSunglasses  Enterprise: Heheheheh. Oh wait you’re serious, let me laugh even harder. AHAHAHAHAHAH!
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  354. silencia08 Actually the weird shit is more Morgana's doing.
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  355. No. Because Titanic was meant to stay in the Atlantic. Also her older sister and sole survivor of the class Olympic never made any trips into the Pacific.
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  356. If in doubt. Add Enterprise
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  357.  @derrickstorm6976  Context: Not disparraging Lee. It's in reference to the fact that he saw the writing on the wall that a Large/Battlecruiser wasn't suited to the the US Navy's needs prior to World War 2.
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  358. That’s North Carolina. But yes I have seen that Azur Lane Slow Ahead episode.
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  359. There are quite a number of photos with Enterprise and either North Carolina or Washington.
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  360. 1:08:34. Drach: The killer of Bismarck and her sister. HMS Nelson: HEY!
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  361. The Germans had started using the Fritz-X guided bombs
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  362.  @bostonrailfan2427  I know. Just shifting the timing
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  363. I had some thoughts on what a modernised Lexington and Saratoga. Have their 2 small elevators replaced with the 3 large ones found on the Yorktowns. Replace the 5/25 guns and 8-inch guns with 5-inch/38s in single and dual mounts respectively. Widen and extend the flight deck and add torpedo blisters in exchange for cutting back the belt armour back by a couple of inches. Only thing missing is someone at the Bureau of Aeronautics or Bureau of ships figuring out the dangers of avgas on a carrier and come up with the CO2 and proper ventilation and suppression systems.
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  364. Q&A What conditions were given for foreign navy observers in watching the Fleet Problems?
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  365.  @orzorzelski1142  The biggest flex in all this. Is that there are several photos of Midway with Enterprise at the 1945 Navy Day in New York.
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  366.  @AlteryxGaming  the lemon spam.
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  367. Q&A In the time between Pearl Harbor and the Coral Sea. Would it have been viable for the Kido Butai to launch raids on either the Australian West or East Coasts?
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  368. But on a more serious note. The USNI's online articles has helped develop the alternate history I've been working on.
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  369.  @Raptor747  by the end of the war. Saratoga was reassigned as a training carrier. But Enterprise was supposed to have returned to the frontlines and had the Japanese not surrendered. She would have participated in Operation Downfall.
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  370. Q&A at any point did Bureau of Ordinance’s behaviour crossover from incompetence to treason.
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  371. Funny you should mention that. One Kate apparently tried to do a torpedo run from the bow. Not only did Enterprise avoided it. But the Kate was shot down by the last remaining 1.1 inch gun on the ship.
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  372.  @paulsteaven  Oh, definitely above those three.
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  373.  @hirisk761  Still trying to add that to the video list on Patreon.
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  374.  @alwayscurious3357  just the lolis in general.
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  375.  @alwayscurious3357  not the destroyers I hope.
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  376. Always wanted to get a good look at one up close. As my grandad served on HMAS Lismore.
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  377. 5:41. It worked well for Yorktown (for the most part).
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  378. 5:41. Aka USS 110% done with this campaign.
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  379.  @sirboomsalot4902  that’s what the brackets are for.
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  380. Some of the british designs feel like something cooked up by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
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  381. Also a very dark part of me wished Enterprise was in Tokyo bay alongside the Missouri when the Japanese signed the instrument of surrender.
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  382.  @marckyle5895  Also, the US Navy wished they had the time to modify Hornet to the same extent as Hiryu.
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  383. Also good seeing you, Dr Clarke and Dan in Brisbane last week.
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  384.  @johnbuchman4854  he probably was diving for the liquor cabinet after what happened.
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  385. Thanks for answering my questions Drach.
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  386.  @Vito_Tuxedo  “to what end?” That was a question the IJN General Staff were wondering themselves. As they only began assembling the combined fleet in Tokyo well after they found out that the U.S. was sending forces to retake Attu and Kiska. By the time the Combined Fleet was ready to go. Attu was liberated and the Garrison was lost. But I suppose they could’ve send the Combined Fleet up there anyway. If for pure spite. If the Japanese cant have the Aleutians. No one will. That or knowing that the U.S. carrier forces are at their weakest could lure them into an area they can barely launch their aircraft and try to wipe them out similar to what Scharnhorst and Gneisenau did to Glorious but on a mass scale.
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  387.  @stanstenson8168  no problem. Though i do need to make one correction. That the Bogue-Class Carriers Nassau and Barnes also operated 12-22 Hellcats during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands
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  388. Also, USS Best Nun.
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  389. 44:34. Funny you should mentioned that drach. Because that did happen to Enterprise on March 20 1945.
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  390. @Nihil Patel Akagi-Sunk by Enterprise Kaga-Sunk by Enterprise Soryu-Sunk by Yorktown Hiryu-Sunk by Yorktown and Enterprise Shokaku-Sunk by Cavalla. Zuikaku-Sunk by Task Force 38.
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  391.  @thanakonpraepanich4284  not really. Given that Zuikaku was the last surviving ship of the original Kido Butai. Halsey won’t start detaching forces until she’s been sunk.
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  392.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  If Hornet’s air group didn’t derp off. Then chances are the Cranes would have been mauled to. If the still derp off then that was dodging a bullet.
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  393.  Max Smith  In the words of Drachinifel. 'I wonder how the captains of those ships felt knowing that their ships were sunk by effectively a cripple.' Enterprise entered the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal with bomb damage on her decks. Her forward elevator jammed and leaking fuel oil.
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  394. And yet their carrier force had its heart torn out by 3 the treaty-compliant Yorktowns. Followed by being swamped by Essexes and escort carriers. Backed up by the Independence-Class Miniboss squad, a torpedo magnet and a carrier powered by hatred for anything with the rising sun.
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  395. Admiral Lee would like a word with you
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  396. No it was named by the founder Jack C Taylor. Who served as a fighter pilot on both Enterprise and Essex
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  397. Speed and power!!!
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  398. 21:10 not only friendly fire against planes. But friendly AA fire against ships. Because of how many guns loaded on US ships by this point of the war. A lot of the lower firing ones run the risk of hitting or detonating over a friendly ship. Or worse, the ship you’re supposed to be protecting. Both Illustrious off Indonesia and Enterprise off Kure were damaged by friendly AA shells.
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  399. If you’re referring to the Battle of Narvik. Drach already did that.
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  400. Honestly the reason why she had a small escort. Was that she was detached from Task Group 58.5 (So TF 58’s night carriers that included Enterprise and also the Large Cruiser Alaska). To assist with the Escort carriers on Iwo Jima. Fun fact during this time she was known as ‘Queen of the Jeeps.’
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  401. Super Atlanta-God.
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  402.  @m.streicher8286  try telling anyone who lived through that.
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  403.  @bkjeong4302  I just realised the Japanese stuffed up by not timing their attack during a comet. So that their firebenders would have the power of 100 suns.
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  404. Albacore: Hey best buddy. Taihou: Ahhhhh!!!
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  405. So if a group of Fletchers are a swarm. What's a group of Essex-Class Carriers?
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  406. The craftiest of cured meats
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  407.  @bkjeong4302  definitley
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  408.  @cbbees1468  Depends on the source. If it was USS Terry (DD-513), then yes. If it was USS Patterson (DD-392) a Bagley-Class Destroyer.
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  409. *On 22 June 1944 either USS Patterson (DD-392) or Terry (DD-513) approached USS Enterprise (CV-6) with an important question. "How much Ice Cream was 'Killer' Kane worth?" CDR William R "Killer Kane, was the CO of Enterprise's Air Group 10 and previously the CO and XO of VF-10 "Grim Reapers." As well as part of the Air Group's veteran core from Guadalcanal. So he was worth quite a bit for the destroyer. In exchange for getting Kane back and the crew of Patterson or Terry got 25 Gallons (95 Litres) of Ice Cream. *Had to repost this due to YouTube on my end having a fit and deleted the original comment when i went to edit it.
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  410.  @andrewtaylor940 pity it didn’t last long when Saratoga got bombed and Kamikazed.
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  411.  @hawkeye5955  there’s a reason why I gave King the nickname “Admiral Omniman.”
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  412. @Bjorn the overly, excessively enslaved singaporean I think Part 3 was Santa Cruz.
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  413. Fun fact. Hobart had served alongside Yorktown at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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  414. Yeah. What happened was that because of the high speed to avoid allied submarines and water being forced through the bombed damage flight deck. Almost resulted in the ship being capsized
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  415. GREY GHOST!
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  416. 15:11. Profit?
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  417.  @Aelxi  Also, she was doing her duty to the IJN by torpedoing those IJA transports.
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  418. It was dark and whoever was on the Helm on Enterprise had been giving lessons to the rest of the task force.
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  419. Kaboom? Yes Rico Kaboom.
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  420.  @Caktusdud.  That's why in Azur Lane, she's often compared to Exodia.
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  421.  @bkjeong4302  Both her's and Shokaku's sinking at Philippine Sea were celebrated by the Big E. That being said, I'm still of the view that Cape Engano should've been a one on one against Zuikaku and Enterprise.
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  422. The Royal Navy even got in on the action by sending Implacable there in May 1945.
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  423.  @bkjeong4302  I’ve heard about that one. But the wrecks beg to differ. Also got embroiled on how “Enterprise Vs Japan” doesn’t count because Saratoga was still around. Even though she was in Pearl Harbour for her I-26 Torpedo damage and that she was just leaving when the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal happened.
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  424. The more I read into Fletcher. The more in annoyed at King and disappointed in Nimitz for sidelining him after Saratoga was torpedoed.
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  425.  @scottpankonin1068  I know it was a massive team effort by everyone involved. Especially the pilots involved.
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  426. Rewinding the clock a bit. Hornet’s flight to nowhere at Midway.
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  427.  @PeteOtton  and I’m still of the view that Cape Engano should’ve been a one on one between Enterprise and Zuikaku.
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  428. +50 for gunnery accuracy.
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  429. Enterprise’s Night ops are very interesting to read. Once you find the information on it. Also, a number of her Night Air Group 90 Avengers were modified for electronic warfare. So radar detection, tracing and jamming.
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  430.  @Dave5843-d9m  weren’t the Dauntless and Helldiver also fitted with swing mounts?
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  431. Here's to praying that when Yostar gets around to adding Wisconsin to Azur Lane. That she's a violent tsundere.
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  432. 22:56 Jeremy Clarkson: ENGAGE FLAILS!!!
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  433. For me it’s the other way around.
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  434.  @bkjeong4302  Also, a part of me now imagines the US Navy finding out the full specifications Unryus and ordering a bunch of Yorktowns (albeit modernised to 1944 standards) just to spite the IJN. I know it’s not realistic. But it would be funny.
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  435. Throw in Taihou taking three years (yes I know she’s a different design) and Japan can’t really mass produce anything larger.
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  436. Thanks for answering my question Drach. In addition to what you've mentioned, if Enterprise was converted into a museum ship. Other exhibits and/or artifacts include: An SBD set up on the spot where Aviation Machinist Mate 3rd Class Bruno Gaido shot down the Nell at the Marshall Islands. A series of exhibits on the Admirals that used her as flagship. Most notably, Halsey, Spruance, Kincaid, Sherman, Radford, Reeves, Davison, Gardner and Mitscher. For Mitscher in particular you can tie that into his service as Captain on Hornet (CV-8) and CO of Task Force 58. For Halsey, that may result in a fight with Battleship New Jersey for some exhibits. A number of the aircraft aboard are painted in the colours and designations of some of her most famous pilots, including a short biography on them, such as Dick Best, Eugen Lindsay, Wade McClusky, Earl Gallaher, Swede Vejtasa, William R "Killer" Kane, William I "Bill" Martin etc. In addition to any IJN carrier aircraft. Some ordinance (if found and disarmed) or replicas should also be shown. An exhibit of early night carrier ops. An exhibit of pre-war carrier development. 1 of her superfiring 40 mm tubs should have its quad Bofors removed and have a 1.1-inch gun placed in it, as a before and after her 1943 refit. As well as show the evolution of USN AA during the war. Thanks to @Bkjeon4302 for the idea. Her kill boards are prominently displayed on the Hangar deck with possible portrait of her fighting Shokaku and Zuikaku. Either in the Hangar Deck or the Flight Deck paint the "Enterprise VS Japan" sign.
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  437. 6:02. That four is casting a big shadow.
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  438. Apparently someone complained that Admiral Lee was doing his job. So that’s why he wasn’t present.
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  439.  @bkjeong4302  yeah Yamato was at Kure under overhaul for the upteenth time.
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  440. Or gathering all 5 infinity stones.
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  441.  @bkjeong4302  unless you count the crews running around on the flight deck making aeroplane noises.
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  442.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Yamato: DON’T SAY THAT!!!
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  443.  @admDanRyan  Hornet’s weird in that she’s built to a modified design compared to her older sisters. But there aren’t enough for her to be considered a sub-class. Wasp is for the most part a watered down Yorktown.
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  444. God what has Azur Lane done to me.
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  445.  @gregorywright4918  1942 carrier battles were for the most part. Shokakus vs Yorktowns.
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  446. Considering who voices Akagi. The Higurashi nightmares are a constant thing.
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  447. One thing I forgot to mention Drach. Was that one of the members of the Board of Inquiry into Halsey’s handling of Typhoon Cobra. Was an old subordinate of his, Rear Admiral (formerly Captain) George D Murray. Who was Enterprise’s captain at the same time Halsey was her Task Force 8/16 Commander.
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  448. The man who helped White Star build Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.
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  449. Short answer. They did actually produce a few escort carriers. But not in the stupidly insane numbers of the Royal Navy and US Navy.
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  450. Local Carrier too angry to die.
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  451.  @melwinge9154  Wasp was sunk by I-19 a few weeks earlier.
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  452.  @DK-gy7ll  unexpected Gladiator quote. Nice.
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  453. I don’t why but Nelson and Rodney weirdly remind me of the Fire Nation’s warships from Avatar the Last Airbender
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  454.  @AlteryxGaming  and now because I’m completely immature. Yamamoto: launch your last pathetic ship so I can end this Nimitz. Nimitz: My fleet has no pathetic ships Yamamoto. But it does contain the unstoppable Enterprise
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  455. Btw Drach i had shared the announcement of your book on HMS Belfast to the degenerates on the Azur Lane reddit.
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  456. One, thank you Jocko Clarke as Hornet (CV-12) was his flagship. But Spruance and Mitscher were familiar with this move as they did a smaller scale version during the Battle of Midway on 5 June.
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  457. I thought it was three-mile island?
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  458. Or preserved Enterprise.
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  459.  @baconpwn  Enterprise: Heykidswannasee adeadbody? (Cue Essex and Independence-Class screaming).
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  460. I have been waiting for this one. Happy Drachmas
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  461. 17:25. Or competition between allied submarines and aircraft. With the surface fleet trying to squeeze in what they can.
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  462. Along with USS Baskin Robbins and HMAS Peters (Australian Ice Cream brand).
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  463. Still waiting for the episode he makes Torpedo Juice.
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  464. The US Navy only assigned 4 CVs and 1 CVL to Night ops. Enterprise, Independence, Saratoga and Bonhomme Richard. With Ranger being assigned as a Night Carrier trainer.
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  465.  @the_undead  Ark Royal may have the advantage in armour and AA fire power. The Yorktown's had better water tight subdivision. Which combined with better damage control procedures including auxiliary power resulted in Yorktown only capsizing after 4 torpedo hits compared to 1 to Ark Royal. The extra space Drach had mentioned due to the double Hangars would as later discovered on the Illustrious and Implacable-Classes severely limited the usage of larger aircraft later in the War. Especially the F4U Corsair and even with Deck Parks. I suspect Ark Royal could probably top out at about 80-90 Aircraft. The same as a Yorktown. Also, Yorktown has a higher top speed at 32.5 knots compared to Ark Royal's 30-31 Knots. The Yorktown's have greater range at 12, 500 Nautical Miles compared to the 7600 Nautical Miles for Ark Royal.
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  466. SPARTANS! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION!?!?!?
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  467.  @seanbigay1042  No problem
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  468. Because of the night attack. Enterprise came away with a third of the shipping kills from this raid.
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  469. I read that part and I think that was the Johnston.
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  470.  @alephalon7849  Isn’t that what happened when Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Hornet and Princeton were sunk?
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  471.  @TheTutch  I apologise. Just wasn’t sure.
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  472. Heavy fire power provided by USS Enterprise and HMS Warspite.
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  473. Task Force 58: Piñata! Piñata! Piñata! Piñata!
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  474.  @scottmason2557  considering Australia Day next year is on a Wednesday. Drach could do a video on the first, second and third fleets.
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  475. After torpedoing Arashi at Vella Gulf. Maury: Enterprise sends her regards. Edit: For context, Arashi and Maury were at Midway. Arashi we already know about. Maury spent that and the majority of 1942 escorting Enterprise.
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  476. 15:36. You mean Hexi stoves and tablets?
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  477. A couple of Midway ones. What if CDR Stanhope Ring either by following Lcdr John Waldron's lead or by his own initiative does his own search and finds the IJN Carriers? Alternatively what if Yorktown was successfully salvaged from Midway (either I-168 doesn't show up or is detected and chased off) and whether her rebuild would mean that she misses Guadalcanal? Bonus one, What if Northampton was able to successfully tow Hornet away from the Battle of Santa Cruz?
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  478. You mean Wisconsin borrowing Kentucky’s bow.
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  479.  @jamesharding3459  Jeremy Clarkson: POWWWWWEEERRRR!!!!
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  480. Thanks for answering my question Drach.
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  481. Considering the amount of damage that USS Enterprise (CV-6) had taken during the Pacific War. Did it develop any mechanical or structural quirks similar to HMS Warspite?
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  482. Q&A hypothetically Drach. Had Enterprise been preserved as a museum ship. How do you see her configured as such. As well as what exhibits and artifacts would have been aboard her?
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  483. Thanks for answering my question Drach.
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  484. Thanks for answering my question Drach and happy 300.
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  485.  @stuartaaron613  That and having Saratoga and Enterprise still running around certainly helps.
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  486. Dick Best and James Murray: Almost counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.
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  487. Her and Hornet are in great condition.
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  488. 8:22. Just for extra fun. Someone should get a RC Zero, Kate, Val, Condor etc and simulate an attack run.
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  489. And by Harland & Wolff so the same people who built the Olympic-Class Liners
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  490.  @kaigunfan  true. Although, it’s a disappointment that it wasn’t the Kagero-Class one.
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  491. No body bullies South Dakota except her.
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  492. I remember reading that between Santa Cruz and the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The IJN had attempted to sneak subs into Noumea harbour to sink Enterprise. But the destroyers and faulty recon meant that when they finally got into position. Enterprise and Task Force 16 steamed for Guadalcanal.
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  493. Between her, Enterprise, Lexington (CV-16) and the entire third fleet. Were the Japanese either being way to optimistic of anything resembling a hit being fatal. Or hoping their propaganda departments would sink the ships with the power of their voices
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  494. 6:37. Adding onto that Drach. She was working with Saratoga as part of Carrier Division 11. One of the Air Groups trained aboard her was Night Air Group 90. Which of course was later embarked onto Enterprise.
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  495.  @montecorbit8280  so I did a bit of research. But had Japan not surrendered, Enterprise would have participated in Operation Olympic as part of Task Force 58.4.
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  496.  @Drachinifel  he had a few stories. He also did some time in Brisbane. Apparently he used to J-turn the ships between the Brisbane River and Breakfast Creek near Hamilton.
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  497.  @Corristo89  Majority were built on the hulls of other ships. But Hosho, Ryujo, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Taiho, Unryu, Katsuragi and Amagi II were built from the Keel up as Carriers. But I specifically compared Soryu and Hiryu to the Yorktowns as they were contemporary designs
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  498. Speaking of which. The late Rear Admiral James D "Jig Dog" Ramage. Who served aboard Enterprise 3 times (first as a deck officer in 1939. Followed in 1943-1944 as XO and CO of VB-10) was from Waterloo Iowa. He was involved in a campaign to have the Convention Centre in the town renamed after the Sullivans.
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  499. Thanks for answering my question Drach.
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  500. During Either World War, depending on whether the ship was in combat or not, when were the meal times set up on a ship.
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  501. 13:02. Correct me if I’m wrong Drach. But isn’t Air Group 10 aboard USS Enterprise trained for night operations? So even in a night engagement, Lee would still have had air support. The only issue would be that they’ve only conducted a night attack on land and stationary ship targets. During Operation Hailstone.
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  502. James May: As you can see, I have done this properly.
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  503.  @gregorywright4918  November 1942. Saratoga: I’m back. So what did I miss?More to the point, what happened to you? a very battered Enterprise: About that….
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  504. Omniman brutal?
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  505.  @rootbeerpoptart  thanks for the correction
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  506. Q&A while there’s no doubt that she would be a pinata for the pilots of Task Force 38/58. But how much damage could Shinano can take if she was completed compared to her sisters?
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  507.  @tinafoster8665  at the start of the Guadalcanal Campaign. USS New Orleans had a similar problem but with spam.
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  508. Sunsanoo-no-Mikoto: What the hell do you think I'm doing Also wouldn't put it pass Umibozu (Japanese Sea Yokai).
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  509. Speaking of Desert rats. One of my neighbors and his mate (both passed). Fought At Tobruk
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  510.  @admiraltiberius1989 , and if you believe what Seth and Bill have to say, Spruance also got a better retirement package than Halsey. Eventually, his full Admiral's pay would exceed the amount for Fleet Admirals in the 50s.
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  511.  Max Smith  A similar thing happened to Yorktown. The Japanese thought they sunk her at Coral Sea and again when they thought Hiryu’s air strikes damaged her at Midway. It finally took I-168 for them to get it right.
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  512.  @josephkool8411  true.
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  513. White Star was the registered owner. Harland & Wolff built her and her sisters.
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  514. To what extent during World War 2 did Naval Commanders distrust Radar?
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  515. To quote M Bison. OF COURSE!
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  516.  @scottgiles7546  CV-6
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  517.  @Boneworm852  USN: So what? Like a Mega Destroyer? Ultra Destroyer? IJN: You're mocking me. USN: Maximum Over Destroyer.
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  518. Tiny problem with what you just said. The Russians had invaded Manchuria and declared War on Japan at 4AM August 9.At 11AM news reached Tokyo of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki. So already your timing is off. Also after all of it has happened. Nearly half the Imperial Cabinet was still in favour of continuing the war. But the Atomic Bombs showed, that the Americans now had a way to inflict even more devastating damage without setting a single boot on the ground. At the risk of only one B-29. Instead of the thousands needed to level the last Oil refinery on Honshu with incendiary and napalm bombs. Which by the way happened a day before the surrender. Combined with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Removing a potential middle party. Essentially, there was nothing left other than to die gloriously. Or surrender and humble themselves to the allies in exchange of sparing the Emperor.
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  519. To quote Azur Lane. ‘OWARI DA!’
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  520. Next battle. Owari Da!
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  521. More than likely. Those reports were either a) not written because the Japanese also did a lot of intra service lying on top of inter service lying b) destroyed at the end of the war.
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  522. The problem is that the Japanese may have torched all their records at the end of World War 2.
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  523.  @Peterax788  it was a mixture of Avengers, Dauntlesses and B-17s if I remember correctly. Also to quote Drach in his 5 minute guide to Enterprise. ‘I wonder how the Captains of those ships felt. Knowing that they’re ships had been sunk by effectively a cripple.’
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  524. Been reading through Halsey's memoirs and I suspect that one reason he put so much effort into trying to save Enterprise. Was because of Saratoga being sunk in Operation Crossroads.
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  525. 1:40:14 if Yamato and Shinano are still afloat and moving once the sun goes down. Enterprise’s Night Group 90 and the British Pacific Fleet carriers will move in.
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  526. Azur Lane?
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  527. Q&A: What are the top 5 USNI books or articles would you recommend to anyone?
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  528.  @ThumperE23  Not for lack of trying. Up to and including Admiral Halsey.
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  529.  @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  I think the oldest preserved carrier is USS Lexington (CV-16).
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  530. Enterprise: What did you say?
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  531. Q&A. Had the US Navy not lost as many Fleet Carriers over the course of 1942 (2 actually sank, the other 2 damaged). How would affect the production of new carriers
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  532. Somebody once rung Could I find some room for guns I need to shoot down some Japanese Planes I said yep what a concept, I could use a little flak myself And soon the sky is covered in flaames.
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  533.  @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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  534. 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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  535. In your opinion. What ships looked like they were designed and built by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond?
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  536. 19:23 wasn’t that the same Hawke that collided with Olympic in the Solent on 20 September 1911.
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  537.  @Rocketsong  There’s point of diversion. While the Japanese military agreed to the Midway plan was the best way to knock out the US Navy’s carriers. There’s a few concessions Yamamoto had to give. In this case loaning out 5th Carrier division for the invasion of Port Moresby. Something he was very reluctant to agree on. Now if he was to haggle around longer than he did. Shokaku and Zuikaku would have been delayed in joining the invasion force. In turn this gives enough time to bring Enterprise and Hornet to the area. Bringing 4 Fleet carriers against 2 and a light carrier (Shoho).
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  538. HMS Victorious. The Royal Navy lent the US Navy HMS Victorious.
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  539. 44:42. Adding onto that Drachmas. But aside from the poor logic of Yorktown and Lexington being on fire and in Lexington’s case sinking for 24 hours. But in terms of story it made it look like it was in the aftermath of Shokaku and Zuikaku’s attack. Which means TF16 was well in range too coordinate their own strike. The film unwittingly implies that Halsey, one of the more aggressive US Navy admirals did nothing. While US Navy carriers were being attacked.
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  540. Air Group 10 had a slightly easier time than the other Air Groups because Enterprise had a unique silhouette. Whereas the Indepences and Essexes all look the same.
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  541. Swede Vejtasa had to do a night landing on Enterprise before the Battle of Santa Cruz. But there's no record of him with VF(N)-90 during their deployment on Enterprise in 1945.
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  542.  @MegaOS_Ver_NEET  So like Warspite. Except less successful.
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  543.  @SonOfAB_tch2ndClass  I was waiting the Azur Lane comments to come through.
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  544. Had Admiral Yamamoto decided to delay Operation MI to allow for Shokaku and Zuikaku to be repaired and replenish their air groups, how would the US Navy respond?
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  545. Owari Da
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  546. Go to Turkey and tell whoever put up the copyright strike and tell them where to shove it.
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  547.  @mrdunk2955  “I will take the designs with me to Coruscant. They will be safe there, with my master.”
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  548.  @bkjeong4302  I’ve heard one of the numerous reasons for the IJN’s overconfidence at Midway was that the pilots and staff on CarDivs 1 and 2 thought that. “If the shinies can sink 2 American Carriers. We can do the same with less casualties.”
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  549.  @drtidrow  and he’ll be back for Emperor Augusta Bay.
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  550. That particular squadron was VFN-101. Which was split between Intrepid and Enterprise.
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  551. F4U-2 Corsairs.
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  552.  @bkjeong4302  Enterprise rules over all.
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  553.  @bkjeong4302  Iirc LtCdr James "Jig Dog" Ramage (CO of VB-10) was the strike leader when he got the message.
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  554. Yep and that was VF-10 "Grim Reapers." Who were assigned to Enterprise.
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  555. Q&A Had the Japanese, in a moment of overconfidence, blown off the recon Liberator sighting, and as such, the Combined Fleet was present when TF 58 showed up. How much more damage would have been inflicted, and what options would the IJN have going forward?
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  556. Thanks Drach.
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  557. And when she was laid down. The US could've legally got away with building her as a full-sized Yorktown.
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  558. Enterprise + Dauntlesses vs that. The entire universe collapses
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  559. As of now may he rest in piece.
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  560. That’s my grandad’s ship from World War 2.
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  561. More like Spruance tried to take a page out of his friend Bill Halsey's book and embarrasses himself. A fuck up would have been if New Jersey got torpedoed.
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  562.  @papajohnloki  I’m of the theory. That Browning got away with so much for so long in the early war. Was because Halsey was the only one who can get something resembling a positive contribution out of him.
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  563. Atlanta arrived in the Pacific in April and joined Task Force 16 on 16 May.
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  564.  @Jon.A.Scholt  HMS New Zealand was from World War 1
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  565.  @donneale7555  go lighten up.
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  566. He was in the Naval Darwin Award video
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  567. Funny you should mention the USS Enterprise in a surface battle. Because Dr Clarke, in an armchair admirals episode, joked about CV-6 getting involved in the night battles of Guadalcanal.
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  568.  @13lbaseball  that and loosing Yorktown, Wasp and Hornet would mean she went on a rampage.* * I had Azur Lane in mind when writing this comment.
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  569. From what I understand there was a lot of radio traffic between Yorktown and Pearl Harbor into the details of the damage. Then when she got into air range she flew the reports over to the drydock. Plus Pearl Harbor had a copy of Enterprise’s blueprints lying around. So that when Yorktown arrived into drydock. The workers knew what to fix up.
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  570.  @fooman2108  Oh i don't doubt that. Except that Enterprise between the Battle of Santa Cruz and the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was repaired at Noumea, New Caledonia.
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  571.  @SephirothRyu  better yet. That particular Battleship is Warspite.
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  572. 7:03 or just take pot shots with the 5 inch/38s.
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  573. She got “Dick Bested.”
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  574. Didn't Drach say some troll threatened him over the last video?
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  575. Q&A in your opinion. What ships looked like or might as well have been designed by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. Either individually or as a collective?
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  576. Fun fact. One of the principle officers in the Revolt of the Admirals was Captain John G “Uncle John” Crommelin. Who was Enterprise’s XO during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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  577. Isn't there an F4F Wildcat at O'Hare Airport?
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  578.  @Zephyrmec  First point: Gatch also overclaimed the aa kills at Santa Cruz, which may have annoyed Enterprise's somewhat traumatised crew. As for Kirishima, thank you, Ching Lee.
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  579. 3:38 Funny story Drach. I visited the National Maritime Museum when I was a kid and went on Vampire. And was playing on one of her AA Mounts and hit my head on the breech.
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  580. 27:44. That’s a Richard Hammond-ish response.
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  581. Thanks for answering my question
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  582. When Saratoga was being refitted at the start of 1942. How would the Barbettes be modified to accommodate the twin 5-inch gun turrets compared to the twin 8-inch guns?
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  583.  @davidkaminski615  Oh what could’ve been. Still I did some further research and had Operation Downfall went ahead. The Big E would’ve been part of Operation Olympic as part of 5th Fleet.
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  584. VersusARCH Enterprise was present at the Battle of Cape Engano. In fact she was the only carrier to hit all three Japanese fleets at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Anyway her dive bombers were among the squadrons that had hit Zuikaku. So while Lexington (CV-16) landed the final blow, Enterprise certainly contributed to the damage.
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  585. And in the background to all the daylight air action between the 1st and 2nd Guadalcanal. Jun'yo nearly starts another carrier battle when one of her Kates spots Enterprise and Task Force 16. But when the strike comes, Enterprise is hiding under a squall.
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  586. Wasp was pretty much a watered down Yorktown.
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  587. I have issues with the Imperial Japanese Navy winning (or at least damaging) Task Force 58 at the Philippine Sea. 1. By 1944, the US Destroyers were to attack radar contact without waiting for orders. Sure, the Type 93 "Long Lance" has more range, and it can become a problem at night. As the pure oxygen they run on produces little to no wake. But this is mitigated if US Destroyers can first achieve a firing solution for their guns and torpedoes. Lee can use the destroyers to help his Cruisers and Battleships. There are issues with the presence of Yamato and Musashi because those 18-inch Guns would increase the standoff distance between the two battle lines. However, the mitigating factor for the IJN was that on 2 June 1944 (according to the combined fleet website). Yamato and Musashi engaged in gunnery exercises off Tawi Tawi against a destroyer at 38,280 Yards (35,000 meters). Musashi's Gunnery Officer Yunoki Shigenori was chewed out for the large spread from Musashi's main guns alone. Of course, at roughly the same time, Lee had his own issues with the Fast Battleship's own gunnery with their own bombardment of Saipan. But would the US Navy's radar and fire control allow the guns to acquire targets sooner than the Japanese equipment? 2. It would be a Mexican standoff between the two carrier forces. But at the same time, Mitscher has the means to get a strike against the IJN battle line earlier in the form of Torpedo Squadron 10 on Enterprise. I still remember the risk you bought up in your "What if Admiral Lee sailed west" video of either side having a friendly fire. Either Lee's ships would fire on the Avengers or LTCDR William I Martin (CO of VT-10)'s Avengers accidentally attack Lee's battle line. However, if Edward Stafford's book on Enterprise is anything to go by. Mitscher was planning on VT-10 to engage in a night attack on the Japanese fleet on 20 June. Had Task Force 58 hadn't spent that night recovering their pilots from the afternoon strike. For this scenario, if Mitscher authorises a night Torpedo or glide bombing by VT-10, the best target would be the battleships, given their size. Yamato and Musashi would be the primary targets for the attack. These attacks may not stop the Japanese battle line entirely. But it would mess with them in focusing on more than one target vector. Plus, they cannot devote much to their dual-purpose guns. Plus, unlike the American Carriers, the Japanese ones did not carry night fighters. At the same time, Mitscher would have the other carriers begin preparing to unleash deck load strikes before dawn. Its debatable which one gets off the deck first. But Mitscher would've been watching the time to launch his strike as soon as possible. This could result in the American strike arriving before the Japanese one and finishing their battle line and protecting Lee's ships as they withdraw. 3. There are also Kamikazes. Say by the start of 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy High Command accepted that their pilots are no longer capable of fighting their way through an American CAP or anti-aircraft defence the conventional way, as they did in 1942. Instead, it is proposed that the planes launch from the carriers and suicide into the US ships. With the escorting Zeroes deliberately causing midair collisions with the CAP, Judy's Jills and Vals Kates make Kamikaze runs on Task Force 58. Once they have been launched, Ozawa retains a few fighters for self-defence and withdraws to a safe distance. The CAP was distracted by suicidal aircraft despite the formidable AA defences. Not all the aircraft would be shot down and could crash into the fleet and light carriers.
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  588.  @mpetersen6  what about being bludgeoned by their own torpedoes?
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  589. The legendary super dreadnaught.
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  590. First.
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  591.  @Cailus3542  didn’t Warspite act as a massive decoy during the Battle of Jutland after its rudder was jammed?
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  592. Ah yes the JMSDF submarines. Which is kinda evil if you think about it.
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  593. 37:14. Such as Enterprise at Eastern Solomons.
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  594. Enterprise’s waifu.
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  595. Also Enterprise’s Waifu.
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  596. That was at Eastern Solomons and it was from Rear Admiral Thomas Kincaid on Enterprise
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  597. I was wondering if you would show up.
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  598.  @thomasknobbe4472  best combination would have been Spruance as the overall fleet commander and Halsey in charge of the Carriers.
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  599.  @Drachinifel  thanks Drach.
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  600.  @bkjeong4302  same thing happened on Enterprise. Not to mention one of Air Group 20’s pilots gave Zuikaku “final honours” (stuck the finger up at her crew) at Cape Engano.
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  601. November 1942: Saratoga: Hey what did I miss. Enterprise: Not much.
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  602.  @gregorywright4918  tranquil as the ocean. But on fire within. Once you launch your aircraft. You are sure to win.
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  603.  @AnonNomad  your the saddest fleet I’ve ever met.
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  604. The Pacific Derp Squadron
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  605. The dauntless would repeat that trick on Hiyo at the Battle off the Philippine sea.
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  606. Drach is probably going to dread the day when he covers Shokaku and Zuikaku.
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  607.  @themanformerlyknownascomme777  definitely Kaga. The island is on the Starboard side.
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  608.  @tomhath8413  a mixture of 1000lbs and 500lbs bombs.
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  609. Definitely with North Carolina and South Dakota. I’m of the opinion that had North Carolina not been with Enterprise’s Task Force 16 at Eastern Solomons. Then the chances of her making back to Pearl and being repaired in time for Santa Cruz were low. Let alone being able to survive the battle.
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  610.  @bkjeong4302  true. But 28 knots was just enough that it didn’t inhibit operations
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  611. She was a knot slower than Kaga.
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  612. @Nihil Patel Considering how the Northern Force was meant to be a distraction and even the IJN knew that the chances of them beating Task Force 38 were non-existent. Ozawa might as well have sent an open challenge to Halsey and Mitscher to a one on one carrier duel. Ozawa in Zuikaku and what ever planes that could be loaded. Verses Enterprise or one of the Essex-Class.
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  613.  @victoroduarte  and because you said demon Rifle breathing-first form: explosive barrage.
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  614. The best part about WeeVee (that’s her actual nickname) was that she had been awarded multiple times for her gunnery in the Interwar period. She was also given the same fire control systems found on the U.S. Fast BBs. So good to see she had not lost her edge
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  615. Sponsored by USS Enterprise.
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  616. I'm convinced that Warspite is the Warship equivalent of Olenna Tyrell. She just absolutely doesn't give a crap no matter what happens.
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  617. 32:38. In this case, it's probably a good thing that the Dauntlesses had been retired from Carrier Ops. As their unfolded wings would have made keeping them on deck a nightmare in those conditions.
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  618. Although if he does it with Warspite and Enterprise. There would barely be a ship left.
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  619.  @indplt1595  if I remember correctly. At Coral Sea, wasn’t TF17s Ops split between Fletcher and Fitch? With Fitch handling the air ops for the Task Force but Fletcher was still overall commander.
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  620.  Max Smith  Actually there was a bit of dark comedy by the crew when one of them posted a banner called ‘Enterprise vs Japan’ on her flight deck.
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  621. Speaking of Halsey and Enterprise. After the war, he made several (unfortunately fruitless) efforts to save Enterprise including going on national television. There's also a rumour that Halsey wanted the instrument of surrender signed on her. Though the Japanese had a say in it by ramming a zero through her flight deck on May 14 1945.
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  622. And if Cersei wasn’t above knocking off Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen when they stopped being useful.
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  623. PureHeavenlySultan Unless there’s a wedding involved.
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  624. That's probably how Dave Filoni recruited him to play Thrawn.
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  625. LightLife4 That and I wouldn't be surprised if Morgause had used a spell or two to ensure cooperation.
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  626. That Guy Over Yes because the best foreign policy is the one that threatens planetary annihilation. Though this is the same man who advocated for marching troops into other countries just to secure their resources for America. So it really shouldn't surprise me.
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  627.  @bkjeong4302  When I meant the heart of their carrier force. CarDivs 1 and 2 along with 5 were the spearhead of the IJN's offensive power. Meanwhile, the carriers were still potent after Midway. They didn't have the same weight behind their attacks as they originally did.
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  628. 34:14. You can hear Admiral King turn in his grave.
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  629.  @sgtsnake13B  Enterprise: Am I a joke to you?
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  630.  @williestyle35  I’m still trying to dig through the crew role. As when Enterprise was decommissioned in 1947. She still had about 8 or so plank owners still aboard her.
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  631. And Enterprise.
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  632.  @spacetrash3651  you should see the Reddit. Next to the Lewds and fan art, there’s a lot of historical photos there.
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  633. Adding onto that. Wasn’t the F6F Hellcat and SB2C Helldiver able to carry a Mark 13 Torpedo as well?
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  634. Going through Enterprise’s after action report. So many screw ups.
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  635. Also Laffey’s last stand and a very vengeful Enterprise
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  636. And the Japanese aircraft for the most part were still shredded.
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  637. All that was missing was Warspite.
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  638.  @Peterax788  and escorting Saratoga (she was back at the same time) and Enterprise.
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  639. Honestly if she was present. Then it would mean one battleship per carrier group. Which may have possibly saved Hornet.
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  640.  @Peterax788  November 17 1942.
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  641. I’m confused?
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  642.  @johnshepherd8687  I refer to my earlier comment of the carrier possibly being fitted with Wildcats (Martlets), Dauntlesses and Avengers. Also you’re right in that if the RAN had deployed an Ark Royal to Guadalcanal. It would probably been withdrawn after sunset. Though whether it would have been assigned to Fletcher and join Saratoga, Enterprise, Wasp and possibly Hornet is anyone’s guess. Also one thing you are forgetting is that if the crew and pilots RAN carrier is trained in Royal Navy carrier doctrine. Then the combat air patrol is going to be more effective compared to the US Navy. I refer to HMS Victorious as my example. Meaning when the IJN aircraft attack during Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz would not be as effective. Possibly sparing the damage to Enterprise and saving Hornet.
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  643.  @johnshepherd8687  that’s what I meant by Pyrrhic Japanese Victory. Because 1st Savo was such a clusterfuck for the allies. That even with a carrier equipped for night ops. The IJN would come out on top. The only difference would be that the ship losses for both sides would be a lot closer.
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  644.  @johnshepherd8687  that being said. The IJN didn’t do night ops for their carriers. Only their land based bombers.
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  645.  @johnshepherd8687  if it lasts long enough. There’s a chance it would have its air Group replaced with Wildcats, Dauntlesses and Avengers for the campaign. Though it may run into similar issues with initially operating the Avenger, similar to what happened with Victorious.
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  646.  @bkjeong4302 saying that though. Still of the view, that Cape Engano should have been a one on one between Zuikaku and Enterprise.
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  647. She fought the Grey Ghost and the Blue Ghost.
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  648. Theoretically, it's possible. Even after 2 torpedoes and 2 bomb hits. Lexington's crew were able to counter the list, put out the fires and fix up enough of the obvious damage to have her resume flight ops and a speed of 24 knots. Had someone even remotely checked on the avgas system. Or at the very least replaced the electric pumps and generators for diesel far earlier. Then the explosion which sunk her would not have happened. Of course, she would not be ready for Midway compared to Yorktown. But her surviving air group could have been merged with Yorktown's or split amongst Enterprise's and Hornet's squadrons. As to refitting, that would take a long time. In addition to the damage, Lexington was overdue for modernisation. So if it's like Saratoga's refit, she would not have seen combat again until November or December of 42.
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  649. The dry dock idol.
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  650. Supposedly. During one of her refits, Saratoga was supposed to be fitted with a larger elevator. Of course due to time and the Essex spam. This did not occur
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  651. Screw dropping the Atomic Bombs. Just send Warspite and Enterprise (Yes I know she was being repaired at the time) to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  652. Still waiting for a replica Enterprise
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  653.  @1Korlash  actually Enterprise’s war record would make her a shonen protagonist.
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  654. Is it just me or does the loss of Edinburgh have shades of the loss of Hornet?
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  655.  @admiraltiberius1989 didn’t some of those shells go underwater and penetrate Kirishima’s hull that way?
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  656. More like her and initially Yorktown had a habit of crashing their own funerals.
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  657.  @superninjaraidingman  that’s like telling anyone who lived through the Blitz or the Holocaust to suck it up. Because the Allies (either Western or Russian) would eventually beat the Germans. They do but it was a long and very bloody process. With a lot of atrocities committed in that time.
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  658. Von Spee’s Bizarre Adventure.
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  659.  @bkjeong4302  yeah and the entire war would be bloodier.
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  660. 6:16. Mmmm, that's good sarcasm.
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  661.  @paulsteaven  and we all know how that one ended.
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  662.  @neilwilson5785  did someone say torpedo boats?
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  663. And Hornet. Honestly, her sinking should have counted as a war crime.
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  664.  @ramal5708  Not for lack of trying.
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  665. Alternatively, the 4x twin 5"/38s were used on Saratoga to replace her 8-inch guns. Shame she was blown up at Bikini Atoll.
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  666. and a CVN named Hornet.
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  667. Agreed. But I put the Yorktowns ahead of them.
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  668.  @TheBearInTheChair  🎵Only shooting stars break the mold🎵
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  669. 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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  670. 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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  671. Or any of the carriers.
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  672. Glorious is in the game. But as a carrier.
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  673.  @dimdimbramantyo7666  I was waiting for this comment.
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  674.  @DraftySatyr  yeah i was writing the comment in a hurry.
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  675. 30:06. King goes into Super Saiyan levels of fury.
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  676.  @CrystalKingdomGeneral4942  no problem
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  677. Yes. Yes he was.
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  678. That’s Hornet.
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  679. No he wasn’t. Halsey had been involved with the carriers since the mid 1930s. He knew that they were the next big thing in Naval Warfare.
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  680. 4:02. I've been reading the Ebook version of it.
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  681.  @AtomicBabel  It’s interesting because Canberra was named after the Royal Australian Navy County-Class cruiser. Although if you want to get real trippy. There’s also a Tribal-Class Destroyer named Bataan.
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  682.  @NesconProductions  Actually. That was Halsey.
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  683.  @captain61games49  well Enterprise is coming back as CVN-80. But I believe that there was a missed opportunity naming two of the Gerald R Ford-Class Carriers Yorktown and Hornet.
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  684. Captain Osborne B Harrison was Enterprise’s CO during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Interestingly enough, her former CO George Murray was in charge of TF17 (Hornet’s Group) as well.
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  685. The flexing didn’t stop there. Midway participated in the end of War Celebrations in New York. Where she happened to be photographed with Enterprise.
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  686.  @patrickgriffitt6551  a bit of further research on Ark Royal showed that her hangar deck had a height of 16 feet. So 2 feet more than the Illustrious and Implacable-Classes. But 1 foot less than a Yorktown or Essex-Class. Still you’re right in that the wings needed to be clipped anyway. Both to fit in said carriers. As well as the Royal Navy having learned that the clipped wings improved the sink rate. Reducing the Corsair’s nasty habit of floating before landing.
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  687.  @the_undead  in his collab with Rex’s Hangar.
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  688.  @bkjeong4302  that’s going to mess up the Kantai Kessen.
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  689. I heard that a number of US Navy pilots, especially those from Enterprise had stuck the finger up in response.
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  690.  @metaknight115  and Zuikaku nearly loses her air group.
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  691.  @metaknight115  and Shokaku got beaten up in those battles.
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  692. An yet they still wreaked havoc across the Pacific
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  693.  @wolffweber7019  already reading it
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  694. Tiny issue. Shokaku didn’t receive her radar until September 1942
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  695.  @atfyoutubedivision955  Ford was a navigator and anti-aircraft gunner on USS Monterey (CVL-26). Not the most glamorous positions. But still worthy of some recognition
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  696.  @Aelxi  isn’t she Enterprise’s piñata?
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  697.  @bkjeong4302  Aoba: I’m Aoba! San Francisco: She’s Aoba!
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  698.  Ron Lewenberg  to be fair on Hornet. The way she went down was outright torture. Three bomb hits, three torpedoes and two suicide planes was enough for Halsey to have her scuttled. Then she shrugged off 400 5 inch shells and crappy Mark 14 torpedoes. When the IJN found Hornet they needed two destroyers worth of Long Lances to finally sink her.
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  699.  @WALTERBROADDUS  By the time the Battle of Coral Sea had ended. Halsey was 2 days out from the area. If he left 1 or 2 days (of the original 5 days) after returning to Pearl from the Doolittle Raid. He might have had a chance to come in on the Japanese flank and pincer Shokaku and Zuikaku from the north with Enterprise and Hornet. With Fletcher coming up from the south with Yorktown and Lexington. What scenario 3 that Drach bought up is the most likely way that the US would have a fighting chance to beat the Kido Butai.
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  700.  @TheWareek  That would have been a sight. Big E and Bigger E next to each other. Also, CVN-65's first captain Vincent De Poix was a fighter pilot aboard Enterprise when the Guadalcanal campaign started.
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  701. ​ @bkjeong4302 ​ Well beyond Hailstone. One of VT-10's Avengers was shot down during the April Truk Raid and was rescued by North Carolina's float plane before being transferred to the Tang. The point I'm trying to make is North Carolina is Enterprise's waifu.
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  702.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  when he didn’t let his anglophobia cloud his Judgement. He was an alright Admiral.
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  703. Catapults help.
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  704. 6:11. But did the ship come in a can? Because if so, you need to let it out. (Cue Tim Curry Pennywise laugh).
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  705. Langley was in the Philippines, Lexington was on it's way to Midway Saratoga was on the West Coast, Ranger was in the Atlantic, Yorktown was in the Atlantic, Enterprise was near Pearl Harbor but too far from the Kido Butai. Wasp was in the Atlantic. Hornet was on the East Coast
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  706. Assuming the IJN can scrounge up the Fuel and shells for them.
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  707. 20 mm Gatling gun. Aka the Sky is bullets.
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  708. Heh. Premature explosion.
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  709. The point is those ships were damaged by the enemy to a point where repair or salvage were not possible. Along with hostile forces present.
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  710. This is going to be fun.
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  711. After failing to rescue 2 sailors who went overboard. When he was in command of Hornet (CV-12).
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  712.  @Everywhere2  and a notorious womanizer.
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  713. Not quite. He would go on to piss off a lot more people and command Hornet (CV-12) in 1944. Until a CO2 canister blew up and knocked a few crew overboard with one drowning in the process. Allowing for Mitscher and Clarke to relieve him of command.
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  714. Q&A. Hey Drach, what is an example of a ship that had survived damage by the power of hate?
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  715. If the fanfics are anything to go by. The smaller shipfus can be quite vicious.
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  716.  @ianwalter62  Mitscher was Hornet's captain. So Spruance would be his immediate superior as Hornet was operating with Enterprise's Task Force 16.
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  717.  @robertdendooven7258  I wouldn't go that far. As more, not informing Max Leslie, the strike leader. That VS-5 wasn't coming from what I gathered through various books. Leslie assumed that VS-5 was behind the main strike. Instead, they were held back for further scouting duties. If he was told they weren't coming, sources said that Yorktown's group had spotted Hiryu and Soryu. Then, he can order the rear sections of VB-3 to target Hiryu. While he leads the forward sections after Soryu. In real life, the rear section went after Haruna and got no hits on her.
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  718. Atlanta: SAN FRANCISCO!!!!! YOU && MORON!!!! San Francisco: I didn't know you were there. Atlanta: SAN FRANCISCO!!! WHAT THE &^ ARE YOU DOING?!?!? San Francisco: I got lost. I didn't know you were ahead of me. Atlanta: USE YOUR RADAR!!!!!!!!
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  719.  @nk_3332  didn’t Wisconsin also give a North Korean Shore Battery a full broadside?
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  720.  @13lbaseball  True. Also that was what fueling Enterprise during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
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  721. Wasn’t that how the US Navy got Yorktown operational at Midway?
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  722. Now how to translate that to Japanese. Because I think someone on Ryujo would have said something similar when it was attacked at Eastern Solomons.
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  723. Actually there maybe a bit of a revenge element as well. From what I understand, Hood and Rodney were both seen together quite a bit prior to World War 2. Even being moored side by side when in the same port.
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  724.  @jeffbybee5207  that would be brutal. For them.
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  725.  @Iain1957  yeah you’re right. My bad.
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  726. Yes there is. It was developed in the 1930s by the RAF.
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  727. I think it was the “700 club.”
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  728. Still a couple of months before her forward elevator blew out. But she was hit by a dud bomb the same day and two days later she was hit by friendly fire.
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  729.  @zackakai5173  Enterprise: Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Yorktown the wise?
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  730. The hell are you on about? The D4Y could carry 1000lbs
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  731. Aside from doing away with the treaty limits they are descendants of the Yorktowns and we all know how much punishment they can take.
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  732.  @Yamato-tp2kf  as well as Admiral Halsey and Admiral Spruance
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  733. I’m a carrier fan so personally I would have gone for USS Saratoga.
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  734.  @lamwen03  then again. Fleet carriers were coordinating not only their flight ops but also their screens as well. So it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility
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  735. That’s assuming they can get her out of the battle area. Hornet had no power so the IJN would be stuck towing her until their own engineers figure out how to restore it .There were PBYs lurking around and all it would take is for one to spot the fleet, figure out what’s going on and radio Noumea. Before Halsey orders Kincaid and Murray to find Hornet and either retrieve her or force the IJN to scuttle her.
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  736. One of them blew up my Aoba last night. Also I try to avoid them when playing as a carrier.
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  737. (15 November 1942 Guadalcanal) South Dakota: Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! My stern! Ow! Ow!
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  738. 2 things. 1. Lee was in charge of Washington, South Dakota and 4 destroyers. 2. The Battle happened on the night of 14-15 November 1942.
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  739. I forgot which one. But he was on Battle 360.
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  740. With Wasp surviving (I-19 missing her in its torpedo spread) would mean she was present along with Enterprise and Hornet at the Battle of Santa Cruz. Having the extra carrier on the US side along with the assorted aircraft and escorts would raise the possibility that Hornet survives. Assuming she was placed in Hornet's task force 17, the extra carrier group would mean the planes from the Japanese carriers would have a tougher time reaching the two carriers. That won't stop Enterprise, Wasp and Hornet from taking damage (or in Wasp's case going up in flames). But again, it may mean that Hornet would be able to survive and be towed away. If luck she can limp away under her own steam. Especially the extra carrier means more planes can be launched. Therefore inflicting more damage to the IJN and possibly taking out one of their carriers possibly Shokaku or Zuiho.
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  741.  @kenduncan3221  On the other hand, the movie would have only lasted 5 minutes: 4 for credits and 1 for Godzilla being buried under 15-inch shells and Dauntlesses.
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  742.  @Alpostpone  DON’T SAY THAT!!
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  743.  @DEP717  You mean Yukikaze?
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  744.  @bluemarlin8138  You mean Admiral Spruance let Vice Admiral Mitscher have the first crack.
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  745.  @bkjeong4302  It's one big game of whack-a-mole. Except the moles fight back.
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  746. Honestly, had Ozawa been given command of the Kido Butai instead of Nagumo. He probably could’ve pushed them a lot longer.
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  747. I think he meant Ark Royal.
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  748. Thanks for using my video suggestion Drach.
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  749.  @jvtagle  a man of culture.
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  750. Bk Jeong Who said that?
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  751. There was a Ticonderoga Missile frigate named Yorktown. But honestly the US Navy had missed out a big opportunity to name two of the Gerald R Ford-Class Carriers Yorktown and Hornet.
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  752. Imagine if Barb joined up with Warspite and Enterprise.
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  753. Thanks for answering my question, Drach. As regards whether Halsey was in command at Midway. While I believe that he may have initially decided to try to close on the Japanese fleet instead of pulling back. I believe there were enough sane individuals in his staff and on Enterprise to talk him out of it.
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  754. Not entirely true. The US Navy was researching into helicopters during World War 2 and were conducting tests and experiments on them post war.
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  755. 22:38 right in the Poi.
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  756.  @korbell1089  And hence why Swordfish from Formidable and Indomitable are needed. Speaking of which, does anyone think of if Sommerville engaged CarDiv 2 in the Indian Ocean. That there would be a Pirates of the Caribbean style gun battle between the 4 carriers.
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  757. Kitty Butai
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  758.  @rostdreadnorramus4936  The Shokakus are the Essexes and Taihou arguably is Midway. Have no clue where the Unryu's fit in though.
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  759. James May: CLARKSON!!
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  760. Suddenly I realise where Michael Di Martino and Bryan Konietzko got inspiration for the Fire Nation’s Warship in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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  761. Thanks for the Birthday present Drach.
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  762. That’s the other reason as well. Halsey entered Pearl Harbor on Enterprise in the aftermath of the attack. It would’ve tied things up nicely if he entered Tokyo Bay on her. Or returned to the U.S. on her.
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  763.  @nitsu2947  1. Real-life Waifu (seriously, they would often be assigned to the same task groups). 2. Both have Yui Horie as the voice actress.
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  764.  @showtime1004  Eastern Solomons. South Dakota was with Task Force 16 at Santa Cruz.
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  765.  @stevevalley7835  That’s true. Although there’s every chance that Congress would only authorise an original Yorktown. Still Doctor Alexander Clarke had said in one of his videos that one of the things the USN could have done to be in a better position before Pearl Harbour. Aside from a working Torpedo, more oilers and possibly a multi carrier doctrine. Was that there was time before Pearl Harbour to have another 2-4 Yorktowns in service. While waiting for Essex.
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  766. 10:35. So typical sibling rivalry.
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  767. The same man who advocated to reducing the order for Alaska-Class Super Saiyan Cruisers for more carriers.
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  768. That was at Leyte Gulf.
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  769.  @tcpratt1660  it’s not so much the fact that this situation required the fast battleships. Like you said sending them in on the night of November 14 was an act of desperation. Along with the fact that if by some miracle the IJN gathered enough aircraft to redeploy Zuikaku. Then they would have been better suited to protecting Enterprise. But that Lee had experience fighting the IJN at night and knowing how the SG radar worked. Whereas Kinkaid while he had developed a plan to counter the IJN and develop something resembling a night fighting doctrine. Had mostly been commanding the Carriers. Wright had only just been deployed to the Theater and needed time to familiarise himself.
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  770. What about a PT Boat for Hammond. Or a King George V-Class Battleship.
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  771.  @gokbay3057  When she was hit once at the Philippine Sea, she was able to shrug it off as well as her sister and it took 3-4 waves of aircraft to finish her at Cape Engano.
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  772.  @gokbay3057  I kinda put Shoukaku ahead as up until Philippine Sea. Zuikaku wasn’t hit.
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  773. Q&A: Just for fun. If given the money, what World War 2 era ships would you have exact replicas built?
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  774. He was the tail gunner on an Avenger.
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  775. Actually because of their size. The Sangamons were the only escort carriers capable of operating the F6F Hellcat
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  776. My money is on LHD, LPH and LHA ships. Most are the size of a World War 2 era fleet carrier and have 20-24 knots
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  777. I vote Akagi.
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  778. 17:13 USN: Heheheheh. Oh Wait. You're Serious? Let Me Laugh Even Harder! AHAHAHAHAH!!!
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  779. Henry Kaiser: 200,000 units ready. With a million more, well on the way.
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  780.  @connorgraham6940  or how about metal benders.
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  781. Formidable tried to sink ships with her guns and one of Taffy 3’s escort carriers damaged Chokai with a 5-inch gun.
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  782.  @gregorywright4918  which deprived Task Force 17 of significant Anti-Aircraft support which combined with the screw up in fighter direction. Allowed the IJN aircraft to damage and crippled Hornet. Resulting in her loss.
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  783. Looks like two of the Illustrious-Class or Indefatigable or one of both.
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  784. It feels a little cruel. Considering he died on an escort carrier in 1943.
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  785.  @shep9231  throw in Enterprise and that would be a force far mor dangerous than the atomic bombs.
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  786. HMS Warspite: How have we not met?
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  787. And the people who want to understand them. Such as his lord and saviour Vice Admiral Willis Augustus “Ching” Lee.
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  788. Pity none of them were named Seagull.
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  789. That or TF38 would have been working overtime to start cleaning up the remaining ships in the Northern Force. Also by this point in the war, Halsey and Mitscher had enough carriers that they could have been incredibly creative in where and how to deploy them.
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  790. I’ve seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.* *Yes I’m aware that Nowaki was present at Operation Hailstone and being shelled by those two.
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  791. I think you are looking in the wrong place. While TF 38 was to the north of Luzon and out of range (for the time being). The escort carriers of Taffeys 1, 2 and 3 are not. Even with limited anti-shipping weapons (so armour piercing bombs and Torpedoes). General purpose land bombs and their guns can cause quite the nuisance. More to the point it can distract the IJN crews from fully committing to fighting TF 34.
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  792. Not entirely. As the Grumman J2F Duck served a similar capacity on USN Carriers pre-war.
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  793. Wouldn’t they be “South Dakota Seniors” due to them being older?
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  794.  @jamesbuckner4791  no they weren’t. They were purpose built carriers.
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  795.  @1dcbly  Adding onto that. I bought this topic up in one of the Patreon Drydocks earlier this year. That compared to say, HMS Warspite. Enterprise was in better material condition. Her War Diary mentions that there were a few structural defects that couldn't be entirely fixed but they were treated as advisories rather than an area of concern. Also, had the War not ended when it did. She was supposed to participate in Operation Downfall.
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  796.  @michaelanderson8186  or USS Sabertooth.
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  797. Gilbert Gibbs More like a relation to Ramsay Bolton.
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  798. Gene Roddenberry was inspired by Enterprise (CV-6).
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  799.  @axelpatrickb.pingol3228  True although even though some YouTube Historians like Drachinifel believe if Hornet and Wasp weren’t sunk, the US Navy would not have borrowed HMS Victorious. But I beg to differ. If those two had suffered almost the same amount of damage. They would needed to have returned to Pearl Harbor and the West Coast for repairs. With only a battered Enterprise for a month and Saratoga once again coming out of dry dock. The US is short of carriers for the Guadalcanal campaign.
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  800.  Max Smith  True.
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  801. Admiral Jack Fletcher is who you're thinking about.
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  802.  @adamscott7354  bit late. But was this opinion based on what he did at Leyte Gulf?
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  803. Supposedly according to the late and great James D Hornfischer’s. Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Kurita thought that when he engaged Taffey 3 and mistaken it for Task Force 38. He reported that one of the ships sunk was and “Enterprise-Class Carrier.” Guess who came back to haunt him.
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  804.  @billmactiernan6304  Fletcher had overall tactical command aboard USS Yorktown (CV-5). But Spruance was in command of Enterprise (CV-6) and Hornet (CV-8) which made up roughly 2 thirds of the carrier force. After Yorktown was disabled and close to sinking, Fletcher handed command of the remaining forces to Spruance.
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  805. At the cost of her viewing Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen as expendible.
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  806. 0:13. You mean like Cersei?
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  807. Try feeding him to the dogs.
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  808. Qantas is planning to deploy the 787 on those routes. But it doesn't have the same charms.
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  809. Melvin Chong Charles Dance needs to be in a Star Wars movie.
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  810. OcarinaSapph1r3 -24 no that’s not him.
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  811. I think this episode took place before that.
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  812. carcotasu081 Either way it's still not on my list of place to travel to. 
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  813. Even then you would only last for about a few minutes at the most.
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  814. I’ve been waiting for these carriers.
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  815.  @bkjeong4302  I know that the original Kido Butai carriers weren't super weapons. But how was it set up and originally perceived before Midway? Everything I have read suggests that the Allies thought they were.
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  816. Q&A: Compared to the US Navy, why didn't the Imperial Japanese Navy adopt the use of Deck Parks for their carriers and what would be the hypothetical aircraft capacity of them if they did?
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  817. The B stands for Blood God.
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  818. Another example was when the Essex-Class began arriving in the Pacific. Enterprise’s crew made it a point for her to carry the same Air Group. Also, because of her catapults. She was able to launch and recover her aircraft at the same or even faster rate as the Essexes.
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  819.  @myparceltape1169 no
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  820. That's Imperial Japanese military doctrine and chain of command to a tee. To quote the Clone Troopers. "Good Soldiers follow orders."
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  821. But then the trade off is South Dakota taking hits like a champ. While Ching Lee turns Washington into a giant sniper rifle
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  822. Super Cruiser God.
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  823. Wrong Laffey. Drunk bunny was a benson class.
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  824. On the other hand unlike what Nakajima was doing with the B6N "Jill",. Grumman had debuted the Avenger in December 1941 and had them ready to go in large numbers (VT-8 detachment aside). By the middle of 1942.
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  825.  @douglambert990  Not named Yamato. But TF 58 corrected that. Although with the night air groups aboard Enterprise and Saratoga, they did away with the dive bombers and kept the Hellcats and Avengers
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  826.  @rayschoch5882  and took on Enterprise’s Air Group 20
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  827. Speaking of Air Group 19. They would have returned home on Enterprise. When she was recalled to Pearl Harbour to be converted to night operations
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  828.  @rogersmith7396  In the early war the Mark 13 sucked about as much as the Mark 14. Although weirdly, it seemed to have a better success rate on PT-Boats than on aircraft.
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  829. More or less the same success rate.
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  830. And in the case of Enterprise. They double as AA guns.
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  831. Bit more than that. She started with 15. But Kinkaid on October 25 1942 had an afternoon sighting report of the Japanese carriers. He launched a strike, they didn’t find the carriers and some were lost in accidents or ditching.
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  832. My Grand Dad served on HMAS Lismore
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  833. Honestly I kinda wish the shipfu’s from Azur Lane and Kantai Collection were real. Purely because they would ask. ‘Why are our commanders egotistical and paranoid morons?’
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  834. I think the “Blue Ghost” (Lexington’s nickname). Was claimed to have been sunk 6 times. Weirdly enough a number of newspapers also claimed , the Grey Ghost (Enterprise) sank that many times as well.
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  835.  @champagnegascogne9755  that one.
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  836. Someone did an Azur Lane version of it.
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  837.  @hariman7727  “screw you I’ll take 501.”
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  838. Battle 360
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  839.  @petersouthernboy6327  he was also present at Santa Cruz. Flying Wildcats off of Enterprise and scoring 7 kills.
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  840.  @melwinge9154  you mean in 1942. Kinda creepy when you think about it. The two big battles involving just the Yorktowns end with either one of them sinking and Enterprise surviving.
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  841. Speaking of which. Air Group 10 was deployed on Enterprise not just in this battle. But the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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  842. The best way to describe what happens to Enterprise onward is this. “ You took my sisters. So I’ll take your navy.
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  843. It’s kinda tragic when you realise it. That in-spite of their flaws. Yorktown and Hornet had taken a lot of damage that should have put them under. But survived long enough for damage control. To make significant progress on restoring the ship. Only for the IJN to show up at the last moment to finally sink them. Speaking of which, I’ve been working on an Alternate History scenario for the two surviving the war.
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  844. She learned that from her elder sister Yorktown
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  845. No she was disabled by I-19 in the same attack that sunk USS Wasp (CV-7)
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  846. Assuming it wasn’t sunk by then. Or already present at Guadalcanal.
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  847.  @paulwallis7586  Nepotism. Holding the British military back since forever.
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  848.  @paulwallis7586  I said in a previous comment that I swear one of the axis powers bribed the Bureau of Ordinance into screwing up the MK13-15 torpedoes. I’m now starting to think this blurring the line between stupidity and treason.
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  849.  @paulwallis7586  so why would the admiralty try to screw over their own navy?
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  850. What if the Japanese began using Kamikazes at the beginning of the war. Initially restricted to obsolete aircraft piloted by washouts, volunteers or whoever they can force into a cockpit from the conquered territories?
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  851.  @gregorywright4918  also I don’t think the Royal Navy would be that generous in giving the RAN a set of oilers with an Ark Royal.
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  852.  @gregorywright4918  by the end of the War. The RAN only had one fleet oiler. So that issue would need to be sorted.
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  853.  @maynardcarmer3148  that was a tragedy.
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  854.  @themanformerlyknownascomme777 Given the lack of pilots. I’m going to say meat shields for Zuikaku.
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  855. To Ching Lee their target practice
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  856.  @Axterix13  possibly.
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  857.  @AdamMGTF  that’s more for the Pearl Harbour battleships
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  858.  @ComradeArthur  it was that turning circle which made Lexington the torpedo magnet at coral sea as well.
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  859.  @Ugly_German_Truths  in one of the recent live streams. Drach did say that the Forrestals (that includes CV-62) would be the most modern ship covered on his channel.
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  860. I had a distant relative that served on her.
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  861.  @arnoldcobarrubias6593  With Ching Lee as Screen commander.
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  862. Warspite and Enterprise join forces.
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  863. Azur Lane.
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  864. Alunita Inghinala this is why Azur Lane exists
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  865.  @m.streicher8286  theoretically the allies could have let the Japanese burn themselves out taking over the Asia-pacific until they dealt with Europe. But politically and to an extent militarily, that’s suicidal. Especially in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, the loss of the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
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  866.  @superninjaraidingman  shock tactics have been used since the Dawn of time.
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  867.  @superninjaraidingman  when was the fighting in Europe between 1939-1945 a different war?
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  868.  @johnhargreaves3620  from I’ve read and understood. Nimitz had his eye on Spruance sometime before Midway. With the goal of having him as his Chief of Staff. Halsey, not only having worked with Spruance but was friends with him for many years. Combined with Halsey’s staff being kept aboard Enterprise. In theory it made for a winning combination that could back up Fletcher. Granted it didn’t work out as well as it should. But Nimitz was still pleased with the results.
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  869. It was done on Halsey’s recommendation.
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  870.  @sargeherren  fixed
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  871. That’s not ominous.
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  872.  @bkjeong4302  they did. But I’m thinking of them going further south.
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  873.  @williamlydon2554  Quite a bit as a lot of what I'm looking for focuses on carrier ops and the decisions of certain people. For example, on Frank Jack Fletcher.
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  874. What’s the James May and Richard Hammond versions?
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  875. It made Ranger (CV-4) useful. If the USN at the time not only found out about Shinano and it’s true capabilities. I could imagine Mitscher gathering his carrier captains and have them draw straw and the longest one gets to go first.
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  876. She would be high on the USN’s hit list for that battle.
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  877. And of course the original ghost Carrier USS Enterprise
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  878. And a CVN named Hornet.
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  879. That’s an Azur Lane / Fate reference
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  880.  @scott2836  In a previous drydock that Drach did plan at some point in the future. He would do a far more detailed look at the Big E. Hopefully, that's soon, if for no other reason than because one of her sailors, Chief Yeoman Bill Norberg, is still around.
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  881. All up her air groups had a combined total of 1049 aircraft either in the air or on the ground.
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  882.  @fxgjolteon4781  let me rephrase that. Yorktown and Hornet damaged Zuikaku at Philippine Sea. Lexington, Essex and Langley sank her at Leyte Gulf.
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  883.  @sandalphon0001  Vice Admiral Mitscher: That can be arranged.
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  884. So if the manufacturing of new ships was the cancer’s spread. What was the initial tumor?
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  885. I saw that earlier. That had to be a prank.
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  886. London Naval Treaty was the main reason and quickness of the design. With War on the horizon, the US Navy wanted hulls in the water. In the case of carrier hulls that meant dusting off the Yorktown's blueprints. That being said, there were some improvements on Hornet that weren't present on Yorktown and would later be added to Enterprise. A longer flight deck, newer radar and firing control and more AA placements. Again, had the Japanese (or the Axis as a whole) weren't as aggressive it would have meant more time for additional changes. Which may include alternate machinery spaces, torpedo protection and who knows what else. Essentially turning Hornet into a proto-Essex. Honestly despite what had happened, the three carriers took a hell of a lot of punishment and honestly if it wasn't for the IJN deciding to finish the job at Midway and Santa Cruz. It would have been likely that both ships would have survived the war along with Enterprise.
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  887. And of course Enterprise who would go on to take all that damage and loose a forward by the end of the war and still keep going like it’s no one else’s business.
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  888. Ah Tirpitz. The one battleship that made the Yamatos look like a better investment.
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  889.  @bkjeong4302  doesn’t work either. Got my Enterprise sunk twice by Tirpitz.
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  890. Q&A-Alternate history. Assuming someone was able to persuade (or drug) Hitler into finishing Gneisenau refit. Would it be ready in time to join Scharnhorst for the Battle of the North Cape?
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  891. Vader would have a lot of bitches to choke.
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  893.  @gregorywright4918  not for lack of trying.
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  894. Wasn’t there a story of two Lieutenants on New Jersey that tried to barge their way to the front of the Gedunk Bar line. Only to be told to go back to the back of the line by Admiral Halsey.
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  895. 22 June 1944. Enterprise: Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Terry: Hey E. What are you doing? Enterprise: Looking for one of my pilots. Terry: Uhuh. Hey do you mind answering a random question? Enterprise: Don’t really have the time. Terry: Don’t worry it’s a quick one. Enterprise: Fine. Terry: How much Ice Cream is Killer Kane worth? Enterprise: You have him? Terry: Yep and you can have him back after we discuss business. Enterprise: Fine, here’s 10 Gallons of Ice Cream. Terry: No deal. Enterprise: What? Terry: See Kane is an Air Group Commander and an ace fighter pilot. That’s already double the standard rate. Add to the fact that he’s a veteran and from you. Then it ups his price again. Also he was quite banged up when I found him. So I’m thinking you owe me a bit more. Enterprise: 15. Terry: Higher. Enterprise: 20. Terry: Higher still. Enterprise: 25 and that’s my final offer. Terry: Deal. Enterprise: Great. Here you go. Terry: Excellent and here’s Kane back.
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  896. Speaking of which. Supposedly Had Task Force 16 made it to the Coral Sea in time. Halsey was supposed to take command of the carriers from Fletcher.
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  897. I remember him from Battle 360.
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  898. Especially seeing as the Yorktowns were limited by the Washington and London Naval Treaties. Combined with the damage control and subsequent improvements to it. Is why the IJN had expended a lot of effort into sinking Yorktown and Hornet. Plus the various beatings Enterprise had taken during the war.
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  899.  @Hunpecked  Actually you are right. Late in the afternoon or early the next morning would have been the appropriate times for Fletcher to get a carrier strike off. Especially the afternoon strike as it may have avoided the Battle of Savo Island all together.
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  900.  @pagejackson1207  you do know I’m talking about Savo Island. Not Midway.
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  901.  @stevewindisch7400  tiny issue with this. Savo Island took place at night. Aside from the PBYs. The cactus Air Force had barely of any night fighting capabilities
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  902. Alternatively, if Stanhope Ring had decided to have Hornet's Group follow Waldron. Then there's every chance that they can knock out Soryu (that was the carrier VT-8 was targeting). Because in addition to the refuelling and rearming operations, Soryu was almost as lightly armed as Wasp and Ranger. The issue is whether or not the Dauntlesses and Devastators can survive long enough with the Zeros and Anti-Aircraft fire from every single ship in the Kido Butai firing on them?
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  903. 36:10. Zuiho, Junyo, Hiyo and Ryujo.
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  904.  @tominiowa2513  Speaking of which. Someone did the 'Think Mark Think' meme with Warspite as Omni man
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  905. Also Dusty Kliess.
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  906. @The Expat Dodo Already mentioned it.
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  907.  @kennethhamby9811  That’s right. She came back as an Independence-Class.
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  908. 34:44. One other mission she conducted was in 1968. When the North Koreans shot down a Lockheed EC-121 Warning star Spy Plane. Hornet was part of Task Force 71 sent into the Sea of Japan. Among the carriers were Ticonderoga (CVA-14), Ranger (CVA-61) and Enterprise (CVAN-65). Along with the Battleship New Jersey.
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  909. Not just that. But at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Zuikaku was damaged by her and Yorktown (CV-10). At Cape Engano, she was sunk by a combination of carriers that included Enterprise and Lexington (CV-16).
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  910.  @Blackjack701AD  short answer, no.
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  911. At the Battle of Santa Cruz. Considering the destroyers were only able to set her on fire. Why wasn’t USS Northampton used to scuttle Hornet?
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  912. Tiny issue. Hornet already experimented with 2 B-25s flying off her deck at Norfolk on February 3 1942.
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  913.  @kms-z2393  if Hornet was successfully pulled out of the battle zone. She would need to emergency repairs at Noumena or Espiritu Santo. Then once everyone is satisfied that she can move under her own power without sinking. She would then head for Pearl Harbor for further repairs and possibly then the West Coast for full scale permanent repairs and modernisation. Between the damage, the transit times and the repair times. Hornet would be in drydock till possibly the end of 1943 or the beginning of 1944.
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  914.  @kms-z2393  Still. With the damage she had taken at Coral Sea and Midway. Had Yorktown survived, she would have needed to spend most of 1942 in Drydock.
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  915. Honestly, the decision to scuttle Hornet at Santa Cruz was based more on the IJN vanguard being closer than anyone wanted. Not because of the damage sustained. For example, when Yorktown was first abandoned at Midway, she developed a list of 26 degrees. When Hornet was abandoned, she only had a 14-18 degree list.
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  916. Q&A: When Independence, Saratoga and Bonhomme Richard were assigned as night carriers during World War 2. Why didn’t they get the (N) designation that was given to Enterprise?
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  917.  @Philistine47  What Drach left out. Was that Sommerville wasn't aiming to take out the entire Kido Butai. At the time the Albacore was shot down. Hiryu and Soryu were detached to widen Nagumo's search and were the closest to Force A. Essentially if a night attack was to launch from Formidable and Indomitable. The Albacores and the ASV equipped Swordfish only have 125 Miles to fly to Carrier Division 2. The Swordfish pilot will only need to look for the 2 large-ish blips on the radar. Which are most likely Hiryu and Soryu. At which point the Albacores make their runs. With no radar, no night fighters and a very questionable ability to direct their AA. Hiryu and Soryu can only evade. Which is harder as you can't even see where the torpedo is going. Plus if the Torpedo does hit. Hiryu and Soryu are more susceptible to that kind of damage than the Yorktowns. Which leaves them dead in the water at best or sunk outright at worst. By the time the Japanese figure out what happened, the strike would be on its way back to Force A and by sunrise and the first scouts are launched. He would be well on his way out of the area.
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  918. That’s night surface action. The only thing the IJN had that resembled night carrier ops was using their cruiser floatplanes at night.
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  919. Speaking of Avengers dog fighting. VT(N)-90 operating off of Enterprise ended up with a score of 4 Aircraft shot down and 1 probable.
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  920. Thanks for answering my question drach.
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  921. Getting PTSD from doing that in World of Warships.
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  922. New Jersey. She was moored in New Jersey for 11 years.
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  923. I know this is a bit outside your time period. But would it have been possible for the US Navy to have reactivated and modify Enterprise (CV-6) as a Helicopter Carrier in a similar manner as some of the Essex-Class Carriers?
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  924. Wasn’t the tradition of naming ships as favours started with USS Hancock?
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  925. Pity Hornet didn’t get the same luck. Though she took a lot of effort to actually sink.
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  926. You mean Hornet? Lexington had corrected the list from her torpedo hits and was steaming at 24 knots while having resumed air operations.
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  927. That was Enterprise, during the attack on Kure on March 18 1945
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  928. That’s the Battle of Santa Cruz. I remember reading the after action report. That stated the early proximity fused shells had a high dud rate.
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  929. Go through Admiral Halsey’s memiors. He was not happy about Saratoga being blown up at Bikini Atoll and was glad Enterprise didn’t meet the same fate.
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  930.  @gregorywright4918  except if a ship was caught in a storm.
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  931. Akagi-Death by Enterprise. Kaga-Death by Enterprise. Soryu-Death by Yorktown. Hiryu-Death by Enterprise and Yorktown. Shokaku-Death by Cavalla. Zuikaku-Death by Task Force 38.
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  932. https://youtu.be/AAFsadbdbCU. Here you go.
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  933.  @jimmacsween5891  considering Patton’s personality. I’m disappointed that he was never assigned to the Pacific. Purely for the titanic clash of egos between him and MacArthur.
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  934.  @johnshepherd8687  ah.
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  935.  @johnshepherd8687  Didn’t Halsey say that?
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  936.  @wolffweber7019  I’ve been trying to research that. Apparently there was a rivalry between 1st, 2nd and 5th carrier divisions.
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  937. I noticed in a number of drydock videos that when Midway hypotheticals are bought up. They usually have one side using different equipment. However, how would the US Forces (both land and carrier based) have handled the Kido Butai. If they had 1942 equipment. But 1944-45 levels of training, tactics and experience. Conversely how would the Kido Butai have performed if the air groups were on par with those at the Battle of the Philippine sea.
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  938.  @trinalgalaxy5943  that I agree with.
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  939. Which is ironic. Considering he died on an escort carrier in 1943.
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  940. George Lucas needed to get inspiration somewhere.
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  941. Thanks for answering my question Drach
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  942.  @sirboomsalot4902  Yukikaze and Shigure were "luck vampires."
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  943. So aside from Yukikaze, Shigure and Arashi. What other IJN Ships deserve the Presidential Unit Citation or Naval Unit Commendation?
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  944. Albacore: Hey best buddy. Taihou: AHHHHHH!!
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  945. Or having intiative.
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  946. Cavalla also sunk Shokaku in the same way that I-19 sunk Wasp at Guadalcanal
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  947.  @WALTERBROADDUS  we did.
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  948. One thing about an expanded Battle of the Coral Sea is that with the arrival of more carriers for either side. The Office in tactical command changes. For the IJN it’s Nagumo and for the U.S. Navy it’s Halsey. So that adds another layer to the what if.
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  949.  @Cailus3542  i think at some point a lot of paper was thrown up in the air and the IJN general staff collectively said “stuff it.” When they found out Enterprise survived for the upteenth time.
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  950.  @TheWareek  No CV-6
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  951. I’d love to know why and how Enterprise’s mast never made it to Annapolis.
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  952. 4:02. Wasn’t some of the steel from CV-6 Enterprise used in the construction of CVN-65. Which is also being recycled on CVN-80?
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  953.  @typehere6689  THIS IS SPARTAN!
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  954. Oh definitely.
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  955. That was the F4U-2 Corsair. An early nightfighter variant fitted with an Airborne Intercept Radar. At the time of Operation Hailstone, these Corsairs were with VFN-101 and are split between Intrepid and Enterprise.
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  956.  @BullGator-kd6ge  same.
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  957. What squadron was your dad in?
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  958. Most of VT-10 would transfer to Night Air Group 90 and be back aboard Enterprise by the end of the year.
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  959.  @crazywarriorscatfan9061  as far as I know, Enterprise was the only one. However, she, Independence, Saratoga and Bonhomme Richard did do night ops.
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  960.  @bkjeong4302  North Carolina actually had a positive relationship with Enterprise. I think i head somewhere that it got to a point where Enterprise's crew would appeal to which ever Captain or Rear Admiral who happens to be in command to assign North Carolina as the BB escort.
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  961. You mean they stink?
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  962. I’m surprised there weren’t any in last week’s video involving Laffey.
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  963. Another question. Assuming, the IJN were desperate enough. How much damage would either the Nagato-Class or Yamato-Class Battleships cause to Henderson Field.
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  964. Alternate History: Had I-19 not struck USS Wasp (CV-7), USS O’Brien and USS North Carolina. Would it affect the Battle of Santa Cruz?
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  965.  @RedXlV  btw there’s fanart of the battle on the Azur Lane reddit.
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  966. 26:47. Must not make game of thrones joke.
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  967. Thing about Band of Brothers, Pacific and Masters of the Air. It focuses on the first person. So the events of a particular unit, ship, squadron etc. From a personal point of view. If one was done about USS Enterprise. Chief Yeoman Bill Norberg is a good candidate. As he served on her from just before Pearl Harbor. All the way till she was under repair for her forward elevator being ejected at Okinawa.
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  968. That is Wasp…….(CV-18).
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  969. The cut corners were bad enough. But Wasp was lost because her TF commander didn’t change up her patrol patterns and the IJN caught onto them.
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  970. Add to the fact that both Wasp and Shokaku were in the middle of flight operations. So a lot of avgas and munitions were being moved around and exposed.
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  971. If I remember correctly. While she was deemed lost about an hour or so after the attack. She didn’t actually go down till about 9PM that night. Also, Wasp did have one advantage over her half-sisters/cousins. In that she had alternating boiler and engine rooms
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  972. The reason why Enterprise had torpedo blisters is because: 1. She had a lot of top weight installed on her during the 1943 refit. So her center of gravity had shifted. Meaning the torpedo blisters are added for stability. 2. The space in between the blister and the hull can be used to store additional fuel. So that she can remain out at sea (or at least not require an oiler) as long as an Essex-Class. 3. Yes Enterprise did dodge Torpedoes. Yorktown and Hornet did not and that’s what sank them. The big weakness in the Yorktowns are that their boiler and engine rooms are in the one spot. As opposed to being spread out. A torpedo hit such as the one to Hornet knocks out those spaces and it’s over for the ship. The Torpedo Blisters mostly rectify that weakness.
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  973. Also good at creating Fox holes.
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  974. Kantai Collection?
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  975. Cunningham had Formidable use her don’t move an inch skill.
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  976. And quickly recovering with zero care.
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  977.  @Drachinifel  Neither are the Sith.
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  978. Weirdly the way Rodney closed in on Bismarck and opened fire reminds me of the last bit of the battle of the bastards involving Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton.
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  979. And now because I’m extremely immature. 🎵“His name is James, James Cameron The bravest pioneer No budget too steep, no sea too deep Who's that? It's him, James Cameron James, James Cameron explorer of the sea With a dying thirst to be the first Could it be? Yeah that's him! James Cameron” 🎵
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  980. And as an Australian. I now have huge respect for King knocking MacArthur down a peg.
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  981.  @calvingreene90  because they were not informed.
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  982. ​ @calvingreene90  The fact that they lied to the Emperor and civilian population. The fact that the Army believed them for a while (in turn the army would later lie about taking Henderson field during the Guadalcanal campaign). The fact that anyone who was at the battle was isolated and later reassigned to other units. Or the fact that the IJN saw the army as an enemy rather than a rival.
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  983.  @calvingreene90  you misunderstood. The IJN lied (albeit initially) that they won the battle of midway to everyone back in Japan at the cost of two of their own carriers.
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  984. And of course that lying and total overconfidence in their naval code. Led to the Navy barely learning a thing and of course. Later Running into certain allied ships that they thought were sunk.
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  985.  @bkjeong4302  Ah
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  986.  @bkjeong4302  The Japanese were already evacuating Truk when Operation Hailstone happened.
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  987. Q&A. What were the U.S. Navy’s odds for success if they decided to copy the Kido Butai’s launch method at the Battle of Midway?
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  988. 21:02 Hornet has been partially avenged.
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  989. Didn't that occur after Savo Island?
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  990. Didn’t the same thing happened to Franklin when she returned to Pearl Harbor after nearly being sunk?
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  991. 52:49 In the interest of playing devil's advocate. A "US OTK's* Japan at Midway scenario" is dull. But if you can work it into a larger scenario, something might be salvageable. *OTK is short for One Turn Kill. Is from the Yu-Gi-OH! Card game where one player knocks out all the other player's life points in one turn.
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  992.  @shawnc1016  had Mitscher followed Spruance’s plan its highly likely that the Kido Butai would’ve been on fire by 9:30 in the morning.
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  993.  @shawnc1016  And who got the lions share of the IJN?
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  994.  @RichardKroboth  Yeah i only remembered him after the comment was written.
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  995. Wasn’t Lexington (CV-16) used as a training carrier?
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  996. 25:54. Also the beginning of a long and storied legacy to which her successors have to live up to.
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  997. 25:50 The beginnings of a great and lasting partnership.
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  998. One more question Drach. How long are you and Dr Clarke going to be in Brisbane maritime museum on the 13th? As I have a decent drive up.
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  999. 2:29 Have eaten at the Ship in for a uni function and lunch and the food there is alright.
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  1000.  @Andrei613  on the other hand. With King planning Operation Watchtower. Yorktown maybe given more importance in terms of receiving repairs. Especially since the main strike power was based around the carriers.
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  1001.  @nitsu2947  good bye to anything that comes in contact with it
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  1002. Speaking of What ifs. I’ve been working on one involving Yorktown (CV-5) surviving the Battle of Midway, with a possible ripple effect that Hornet (CV-8) survives Santa Cruz.
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  1003.  @MrSleepy677  Enterprise: Hello new target
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  1004.  @rrm2305  More like what her sister Washington did to Kirishima off Guadalcanal
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  1005.  @BaronSamedi1959  I know that when Enterprise went into her 1943 refit. The crew (excluding the Air Group) was divided into thirds and sent on 30 day leave at a time.
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  1006. That decision was one of the reasons for rebutting the whole “blunder into the Japanese fleet at midway” argument.
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  1007. The NelRods remind me of the Fire Nation’s warships from Avatar the Last Airbender.
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  1008.  @issacfoster1113  not that superior as to keep Enterprise away from Task Force 58.
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  1009.  @craigpalmer9196  i remember hearing that Enterprise was close to Franklin when the attack happened and that some of her crew were eye witnesses.
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  1010. Or launch him from one of the ship’s catapults.
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  1011. Also, she survived being "Dick Bested."
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  1012. Fun fact. He was a former member of Enterprise’s VF-10 “Grim Reapers.”
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  1013.  @timdake  the takeoff fiasco involved the Son of a Bitch 2nd Class Helldiver. Weirdly the only one who can get a positive contribution from him was Admiral Halsey. Also in a bit of foreshadowing, towards the end of the Battle of Midway. Browning wanted Enterprise and Hornet to launch a long range strike with the SBDs using 1000lbs bombs. McClusky and Scouting 6 CO Earl Gallaher (Best was in the hospital and Lindsay was dead) were told of this and objected to the plan. They believed that the plan was stupid as the range of the strike plus the bomb load would result in the SBDs not having enough fuel to return back to the carriers. They bought it up with Enterprise’s Captain George Murray and they got into a massive argument with Browning. That ended when Spruance agreed to “do what you pilots want.” Browning spent the rest of the battle sulking in his cabin.
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  1014. @Yuri Setsuna that being said. The North Carolinas and South Dakotas were used as escorts up until the end of the war. Hell both classes had been used as carrier escorts during Guadalcanal. What I’m trying to say is that both ships had 27-28 knots top speed. By that logic, those two classes would have been put on shore bombardment exclusively duty at the end of 44 when Missouri and Wisconsin arrived into the Pacific.
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  1015.  @leafs9328  her Bridge and Hull from what I understand is more or less intact.
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  1016.  @tomdolan9761  Twice. 1st time was on Bunker Hill and one of the pilots nearly gave him the Kylo Ren treatment. 2nd time was on Enterprise a few days later and her forward elevator went sky high.
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  1017.  @tomdolan9761  There were also a number of carriers that still going at speed and in formation after being kamikazed as well. Although they were on fire as well.
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  1018.  @tomdolan9761  saying that earlier in the year I asked Drach that had Halsey detached Task Force 34 would he need to change flagship. He said yes. But that it would only be onto South Dakota or Massachusetts as they would be escorting the Carriers to Cape Engano. The only reason he would use a carrier as a flagship would be if Halsey gave Lee all the battleships.
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  1019.  @tomdolan9761  Halsey also mentioned in his memoirs that it was also because a battleship can take a hit far better than a carrier. Even one as well designed as an Essex. Or the damage control crew is highly experienced like on Enterprise.
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  1020. Did a bit of reading into Halsey. When he was made 3rd fleet commander. He was mulling the idea of using a carrier (so either one of the Essexes or back to Enterprise). But apparently due to issues in the Marianas including fleet operations “too stiff” and fighter direction “too disorganised.” Resulting in a push by his staffers for Halsey to have more tactical command of the fleet. That means more staff and more room required. Hence New Jersey was chosen as his flagship.
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  1021.  @tomdolan9761  one of the other reasons they didn’t pursue TF16 after Santa Cruz was their own fleet had taken damage. There were PBYs flying about and they were running low on fuel. Now add all those factors plus a battered non functioning fleet carrier being towed. That makes their fleet a big target. Especially if with their own carriers being further away and missing most of their squadrons.
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  1022.  @connormclernon26  or TFS Vegeta
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  1023. Essentially Hitler would need to have a Palpatine level plan to pull off Plan Z successfully.
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  1024. Or a Britain where Oswald Mosley became Prime Minister.
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  1025.  @klobiforpresident2254  U-47 (innocent whistling).
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  1026. Trying to win an argument at the moment. But when discussing certain historical figures (both naval and non-naval). Why is it that when one or few big mistakes pop up they are treated as the worst thing in existence and none of the achievements are acknowledged or downplayed? For example with Admirals King and Halsey, a lot of people consider them to be ranked as one of the worst admirals in History. For King it is based on his Anglophobia and a consequence being the U-Boat second happy time. For Halsey it's his decision to chase after Ozawa at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and sailing the Third Fleet into 2 typhoons.
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  1027.  @GearGuardianGaming I’m confused and keeping in mind I have seen the Adams family. What does Admiral Nimitz have in common with Gomez Adams?
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  1028. It’s Kimmel
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  1029. 11:59 Yamamoto: We won at Midway. Hirohito: Excellent. (Enterprise and Hornet laughing in the background).
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  1030.  @mbryson2899 keep in mind that Hornet’s sisters are Yorktown. A ship that was claimed sunk multiple times and took a lot of damage to finally go down. As well as Enterprise who was a floating wreck at one point during the Guadalcanal Campaign and when she lost her forward elevator in 1945 kept at speed and in formation with the rest of TF58. Despite being on fire and flooding due to broken water mains.
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  1031. Q&A: How would Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier operations in World War 2 be affected. If the RAF never return control of the Fleet Air Arm to the Royal Navy?
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  1032. 3:07 Hey Drach. Centaur is between North Stradbroke and Moreton Island.
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  1033.  @RCAvhstape  and the Bofors and Oerlikons are used for hunting rabbits
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  1034. 18:44. Speaking of Mark 33. Didn't you mention Drach in the Guadalcanal series that Enterprise's after-action reports on the Battles of Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz stated that the Mark 33 had issues with target acquisition?
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  1035. USS Bunker Hill.
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  1036. Probably the same thing holding the Enterprise up.
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  1037. Homer Simpson would be happy aboard this ship.
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  1038.  @bkjeong4302  Stardust crusaders?
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  1039. Them and the Pensacolas are my favourite targets.
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  1040.  @bkjeong4302  with Ozawa. He tends to get less flak for his losses. Because given what and who he was working with. He was making the most out of an impossible situation.
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  1041. Good thing the Yorktown's armour is good for anything up to 6-inch shells.
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  1042.  @AtomicBabel  Didn't Yorktown's crew patched up her flight deck like that at Midway?
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  1043. 2:05-2:14. I thought it was the Bureau of Ordinance?
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  1044. Along with the same historians who agree that scrapping Enterprise and Warspite were crimes against history.
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  1045. I think that would fall under to ten naval cock ups.
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  1046. Thanks for the birthday present Drach
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  1047. That was probably the back up solution in the event the Atomic bombs and the Russian invasion of Manchuria didn’t work. Just have Enterprise and Warspite bomb and shell Tokyo
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  1048.  @royasturias1784  The reputation for Queen Mary is somewhat different. She was given the nickname Grey Ghost because of her grey paint job and her speed (28-32 Knots) meant that she was a nightmare for U-Boats to even find her. Much less fire a torpedo
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  1049. So the Queen Mary and USS Enterprise were given the nickname ‘Grey Ghost’.
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  1050. There was a catapult in the hangar. Plus it was mainly used to launch fighters.
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  1051.  @petersouthernboy6327  The anniversary for Santa Cruz was three days ago.
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  1052. This takes a whole new meaning on the Azur Lane subreddit
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  1053. 18:52. Correct me if i'm wrong, Drach. But whenever Allied Tanks faced off against the Ha-Go. Wasn't there an issue of over-penetration because the Ha-Go's armour was so thin?
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  1054.  @bkjeong4302  Or remembered that because of the Italians and Japanese withdrawing. That after 31 December 1936 the only thing constraining the construction of their carriers was a 23,000-tonne individual displacement. Then, according to Dr Clarke, the US Navy could have spammed another 3, maybe 4 or 5 Yorktowns. Before switching to the Essex-Class.
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  1055.  @bkjeong4302  i remember from Battle 360 that a pilot either from Enterprise or another carrier did a flyby of Zuikaku as she was sinking and sticking the finger up. Much to the rage of her crew.
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  1056.  @bkjeong4302  maybe in their dreams.
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  1057.  @bkjeong4302  the way I can realistically see it happening is if Halsey ordered Mitscher to specifically have Zuikaku singled out for Enterprise only.
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  1058.  @bkjeong4302  again missed opportunity.
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  1059.  @bkjeong4302  for the life of me. I’m still wondering where they were would be getting the resources and slipways if they went ahead with five of the Hakuryuu (G-15) designs. As part of 4th supplementary program.
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  1060. Or Warspite.
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  1061. Throw in Washington and South Dakota for good measure.
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  1062. Isn’t this the same destroyer that took out a Japanese Submarine with potatoes?
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  1063. And insanity.
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  1064.  @rostdreadnorramus4936  Wasp is a watered down Yorktown. Whereas the Unryus are a modernised Hiryu.
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  1065.  @marckyle5895  true. But according to Shattered Sword. Hiryu and Soryu had the best dive bomber pilots in the IJN.
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  1066. Drach’s best girl.
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  1067. Where the skies are so blue
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  1068. new achievement unlocked
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  1069.  @simonpitt8145  hence why Victorious is needed.
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  1070. To which I counter. That’s assuming her air group (which may either be Night Group 90 or Night Group 55 if the former was rotated out) was even on board in the first place. Because in the week or so leading up to the surrender ceremony. A number of Japanese air bases were taken by the allies. So what’s to say that her Air Group won’t be based there. Or join the massive air parade (and no doubt leading it).
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  1071. Also, there’s a bit of poetic justice in it. The IJN started the Pacific War from the flight deck of the Akagi. Had Enterprise been present, the surrender should have been signed on the flight deck of the ship that sank Akagi.
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  1072. Also, had she been used for the surrender. Her crew should’ve either find or remake the “Enterprise vs Japan” sign on her flight deck. With the caption “Enterprise-1 Japan-0.”
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  1073. Q&A. What are your thoughts on Battle 360?
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  1074. Well. If a submarine can be sunk by potatoes. Then it should be possible to use Hardtack as a melee weapon. Get enough and they could be used as grape shot.
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  1075. I remember hearing that from Hetalia
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  1076. 22:54 what’s the story behind that?
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  1077. That’s Dick Best.
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  1078. Enterprise's waifu.
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  1079.  @88porpoise  By 1934, the IJN made it very clear that they stopped caring about the naval treaties. Plus their war in China, specifically the 1932 Shanghai incident involving Hosho and Kaga had shown an inkling as to what carriers could do against land bases.
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  1080.  @88porpoise  Did a double check and yeah she was laid down a week after the 2nd treaty was signed. On the flip side. There’s also every chance that Congress could withhold money from the navy until they agree to build Wasp to a full Yorktown. Remember it’s not unusual for ships to be cancelled either on the slip way or after they had been launched. Also Drach had stated in last week’s drydock regarding whether it was better for Essex to have been built as a Yorktown earlier rather than wait until 41. The US did have the industrial capacity and resources to build another Yorktown Even by 1938 if Wasp was constructed as a full Yorktown. It doesn’t change the diplomatic situation that much. Hitler is still running Germany, the Italians are in Africa and Japan is stuck in a war with China. Also, the IJN had got started on the treaty-breaking Shoukaku-Class Carriers. So there’s no fundamental change to why the Naval Expansion Act was passed. If anything it might encourage Congress (or at least FDR) to include an upgraded Wasp. Speaking of which her keel being laid down in 37 or 38 wouldn’t delay her commissioning that much. Say we use the timeline for Yorktown and Enterprise’s construction. That’s 2 years between Keel laying and launch plus another 15-18 months for fit out. Resulting in her being in commission later in 1940 or early 41. So by the time, Pearl Harbour happens. The US Navy could confront the Kido Butai with 6 effective carriers of their own. As opposed to 5, as Ranger doesn’t really work.
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  1081.  @stevevalley7835  The only issue I see is either Congress being cheap. Or the US Navy still wanting to spam as many hulls at the lowest weight possible
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  1082.  @dogsnads5634  yep
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  1083.  @dogsnads5634  I tend not to count Hornet as she was laid down and commissioned after everything went to hell.
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  1084.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  My mistake
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  1085. So Warspite was the Royal Navy's 'bailout ship?'
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  1086. The issue was that the carriers only had night fighters (F6F-3Ns and F4U-2s). Also while there were night qualifications for the pilots. Only Air Group 10 aboard USS Enterprise had the experience to launch a night strike and the “Big E” was the only carrier with experience for night ops.
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  1087.  @tomdolan9761  that was Okinawa
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  1088. Yep and Indianapolis was attached to Task Group 58.3. Which happened to have Mitscher’s flagship Lexington
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  1089. More like Halsey forgot. Go back through his service between December 7 1941 and 1943 and there are instances where the man did exercise caution.
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  1090. I was waiting for the Kantai collection comments to show up
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  1091.  @deidryt9944  Speaking of Santa Cruz. What makes the US loss even more infuriating. Was that Task Force 17 was led by George D Murray. Enterprise’s Captain from March 1941 till after Battle of Midway and he was a naval aviator. So there was indeed someone more qualified to command Task Force 61 available.
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  1092. Blame I-19.
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  1093. And the saga of the South Pacific cluster fuck continues.
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  1094.  @dougjb7848 the steering position isn’t that high.
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  1095. Its amazing and haunting looking at the images.
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  1096. 1943. IJN: Finally, we’ve defeated the US Navy’s carrier force. Enterprise & Saratoga: We’re back bitches! And we bought friends (Cue Essex and Independence-Class carriers appearing from an Avengers Endgame style portal).
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  1097.  @adam_mawz_maas  I amended my comment about Barnes and Nassau but didn’t know about Tulagi and Kasaan Bay.
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  1098.  @maxart3392  exactly
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  1099.  @robertbuttery1264  Only 2 combat operations and was sent to the Pacific in 1944 as a training carrier.
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  1100. There’s an irony in that Enterprise had taken the Admiralty Pennant. Even though Saratoga had more experience operating with the Royal Navy.
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  1101.  @kemarisite  it’s a bit of a toss up as to which air group that plane came from. Though a number of sources indicate that the Dauntless came from Enterprise
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  1102.  @kemarisite  From the combined fleet website. Hiyo was hit by a small bomb from a Dauntless of either Air Group 10 (Enterprise) or Air Group 16 (Lexington). This was followed by TBF Avengers from Air Group 24 (Bellau Wood) scoring a hit on the Starboard Engine room
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  1103.  @bkjeong4302 nah she would’ve survived. But without Vestal being at Noumea after the Battle of Santa Cruz. Then Halsey would’ve had no choice but to send her back to Pearl Harbor or the states. Which would’ve made things extremely tricky for the Guadalcanal Campaign. As without her or her aircraft. The Marines and other ships would only have been barely able to hold Henderson field after the November Night Battles.
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  1104. Quick question was he with Jason when the ship was stationed at Ulithi in 1945? Because Jason helped repair Enterprise first from the friendly fire damage at Kure in March and the Kamikaze damage in April.
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  1105. Also, if you think about it. The Implacables are a treaty free evolution of the Illustriouses. Just like how the Essexes are a an evolution of the Yorktowns.
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  1106. Enterprise: Why is it nearly always the forward elevator?
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  1107. Tiny issue. The IJN carrier pilots were already traumatised at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
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  1108. Would Halsey need to change ships at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. As New Jersey was both his flagship and assigned to Task Force 34, should it be detached to guard the San Bernardino Strait.
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  1109. Not controversial if it’s true.
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  1110. This was in 43. So it’s still a sane but aggressive Halsey.
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  1111. Assuming they don’t get detected and attacked on the way back to Truk or Rabaul.
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  1112. I'm just thinking. Would a third wave for the Pearl Harbor attack have been viable if it was a kamikaze? Do the first 2 waves as conventional attacks. Then, just before it's time to turn around. Launch the third wave and have them attack anything that wasn't on fire or looks like the US may recover and then get out of the area.
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  1113. Oh Clone Wars Reference nice.
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  1114.  @bkjeong4302  Shinanah
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  1115.  @bkjeong4302  that’s tricky because at 65,800 tonnes she’s 773 tonnes lighter than Yamato at standard weight. But at full load her 69,151 tonnage is 2508 tonnes lighter than Yamato.
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  1116. The third Sakura God Card.
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  1117. They’re making the US Navy want to apologise to Ranger.
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  1118. Thing is Lee and another Rear Admiral Gerald Bogan recognised the possibility of a Japanese air strike on Task Force 34. Lee was counting on air cover from the Taffies. While Bogan who was commander of Task Group 38.2. Suggested to Halsey his group remain near the San Bernardino strait with Lee. As he only had Intrepid and Independence under his command.
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  1119. Not true. He can change ships in the middle of battle. Odds are that it would either be South Dakota or Massachusetts. The former is especially likely given it has a dedicated flag quarters. But considering it would have been the last carrier battle of the war. Halsey may have transferred over to a carrier. With the likely candidate being Enterprise.
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  1120. Possibly he would switch over to either South Dakota or Massachusetts as they would be accompanying the carriers in dealing with Ozawa. Or switch New Jersey out with one of the above two battleships. Also switch over to a carrier as his flagship. Considering that all the available Essex-class were already Task Group flagships and Mitscher was aboard Lexington. Not to mention that the Independence-Class don’t have the room for him and his staff. That would leave Enterprise picking up her old job as his flagship.
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  1121. I bought it up with Drach in a drydock a while ago and his answer was that if TF34 was detached including New Jersey. Then yes he and his staff will need to change ships. It is possible to this at sea. That’s what Breeches Buoys and destroyers are for. Most likely he would have raised his flag on South Dakota or Massachusetts in that order. However, if all the Battleships were sent with TF34. Then Halsey would have to resume command from a carrier and since the Independence-Class were too small and the Essexes present were either Task Group or Mitscher’s flagship. It leaves his old flagship Enterprise
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  1122. Alternatively though. TG 38.1 (Wasp jnr and Hornet jnr) was en route to Leyte Gulf from Ulithi. Halsey decides that TGs 38.2-4 are enough to work over Ozawa. He can order TG 38.1 to support Lee with their aircraft and if need be escorts as well. The IJN may also deploy their land based aircraft to either attack Lee either conventionally or as kamikazes.
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  1123. Between Hornet, Monterey, Cowpens, Essex, Ticonderoga, Langley, Enterprise and San Jacinto. That’s a lot of air power.
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  1124.  @Drachinifel And Enterprise wanted the flight deck of every carrier.
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  1125. Dusty Kleiss was that pilot.
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  1126.  @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  Starting from your second argument. Wasp may still be bought in from the Atlantic. Because Lexington was still lost and even with Yorktown on the West Coast. King was not going to wait for her to be repaired to start Operation Watchtower. Plus with Hornet's group taking the worst casualties, the starting lineup would be Saratoga, Enterprise and Wasp. With Hornet on standby. But had Yorktown been dragged back to Pearl Harbor (assume for the sake of argument that I-168 either could not find her or was detected by the destroyers and driven off). Then she would need a month or 2 in Pearl Harbor to drain her under water damage, patch the holes and rebuild her boilers and generator room. Then going across to Puget Sound or Mare Island she would need 3 more months of further repairs. Plus a similar refit to what Enterprise received in 1943. So a wider flight deck, heavier AAA battery, torpedo blisters, newer radar and fire control. So that's an additional 3-4 months in dry dock plus work up. Which means that by the time she arrives in either Noumea or Espiritu Santo. It would either be December 1942 or January 1943. Which might get Halsey to relieve Enterprise early and have her go through her own repairs and refit. But that's another what if entirely.
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  1127. Given how intact Yorktown and Hornet’s wrecks are. They are similar to Enterprise in that they won’t die.
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  1128.  @markusz4447  Well baby dragons can swim.
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  1129. On the one hand it means a lot less kamikazes. On the other hand it’s because this floating ice island would be acting as a massive magnet.
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  1130.  @bkjeong4302  I didn’t know there were that few ships. I knew that the panoeksun’s made up the majority of Yi’s fleet.
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  1131.  @leftcoaster67  Bismarck got torpedoed in the rudder. But I remember reading that one of the bombs dropped passed through the aft edge of the flight deck and blew up astern of Akagi. Which jammed her rudder.
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  1132. Also didn’t one of the near misses to Akagi jammed her rudder?
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  1133. Him and Dusty Kless as helped knock out Kaga and along with Best hit Hiryu. He would then help sink the Mikuma the following day.
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  1134. I saw the plans. She still had her stacked stern and liner hull. But with the superstructure and flight deck of a Yorktown-Class built on top of it.
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  1135. So does anyone remember the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Storm." Specifically the conversation/argument between Iroh and Zuko about whether the storm was coming? Because I suspect a very similar one played out on New Jersey's bridge
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  1136.  @jh93989  I got the audiobook.
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  1137. The craftiest of cured meats.
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