Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "USS North Carolina - The USN's first fast battleship" video.

@lonjohnson5161 Drac could fill a day in Muskegon, MI. While there are several Gato class subs around, the one in Muskegon, USS Silversides, is pretty well known, including being mentioned, along with Tang and Wahoo, in the movie "Operation Pacific". There are also a WWII vintage LST, and a Great Lakes excursion steamer in the same port. I think there is also a Gato class boat in Wisconsin. The air and space museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan has a restoration shop that does a lot of work for the Navy, restoring aircraft salvaged out of Lake Michigan. They are presently working on their third SBD. An expedition is scheduled to set sail in May to attempt salvage of the planes that fell off the Lex's deck when she sank at Coral Sea. If the salvage is successful, the Kalamazoo museum is in line to get a couple of the TBDs to restore.
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@bkjeong4302 I would nominate Franklin, CV13, for her epic recovery from damage and steaming back to New York for repair. When she was scrapped in the late 60s, there was a documentary about her on TV, which included several former crewmembers, telling her story. "The ship that wouldn't die". When scrapped, Franklin was in her original, WWII configuration, except for a piece cut out of the flight deck for use to repair wave damage on another Essex.
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