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To: neverdem

Funny - the carrier was nicknamed ‘USS Decrepid’ during the war because it always seemed problem-plagued.


2 posted on 05/21/2008 3:16:54 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter
Funny - the carrier was nicknamed ‘USS Decrepid’ during the war because it always seemed problem-plagued.

Yeah, but she sure could take a beating. Hit numerous times by kamikazes. She lost 800 men in one day.

3 posted on 05/21/2008 3:20:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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