Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "" video.

  1. That's probably a good description of the United States Navy for most of its history.
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  2. Well.... There is the soccer stadium. Or the prison. Or the very handy casino next door.
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  3. It is sad Eugene Ely has never gotten his due. The man who helped bring about modern Naval Aviation has never had a ship in his name.
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  4. ​It is one of my pet peeves. Also, that none of the Great Marine Corps Aviators have not even a destroyer? Where's the Joe Foss? Greg Boyington? Marion Carl???
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  5. Chester is barely a city. Not a place I would name a cruiser for.
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  6. Hmmmmmmm... 🤔 It's a tiny suburb of Philadelphia. A few minutes from the airport​ It did have a shipyard once upon a time. The biggest thing there now is a soccer stadium, a casino / racetrack, and state Prison. Mostly, it's a place you just drive by on i-95.
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  7. You know..... It would be absolutely great if the BBC actually would broadcast him. 📻
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  8. The Boeing helicopter factory is right up the road​. Still making Ch-47 and V-22's. But it's a bit like Wilmington, Delaware. Some place you drive by, on your way someplace else....
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  9. ​used to be a lot of industry then. You had the shipyard. Lot of oil refineries. And today Boeing Helicopter is right outside city limits.
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  10. ​True. More remembered and thought about for Philadelphia. But, he did land near Chester.
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  11. ​Kinda really forgotten history. But, yeah. A lot more serious than what we saw in Los Angeles apparently.
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  12. ​Luckily, I've never had the pleasure of entering any of the 3.
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  13. ​Fashion trend? 💃
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  14. ​Sub launched aircraft. Rather than seaplane, use UAV. It would expand the recon reach of subs. It might eventually carry a helicopter or VSTOL plane.🚁 Or maybe that fantasy flying sub thing....
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  15. I don't think the waters there are particularly deep or cold?​ So probably subject to Marine Growth and decay.
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  16. It's just the era of rapid technological change. The Wright Brothers were state-of-the-art in 1903​. Obsolete 10 years later.
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  17. Still, not exactly the first town you would think about to name a ship for in PA. I mean it's smaller than Allentown, Reading, Erie, Harrisburg, Etc....
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  18. Chester isn't even large by Pennsylvania standards. They were more Worthy towns to choose.
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  19. I'm sure no one at the prison or the casino thinks about that​ much...
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  20. Other cities did not get get cruiser names. There was no Harrisburg. No Reading. No Erie or Allentown. All larger and more significant.
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  21. ​ @LeftVegas political favoritism? You might have something there.
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