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NAZI STAFF OFFICERS MOVE INTO SOFIA AS BULGAR STUDENTS PROTEST ENTRY (2/23/41)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz
| 2/23/41
| Percival Knauth, Hugh Byas, Robert van Gelder
Posted on 02/23/2011 5:38:10 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: PAR35
At this point the Langley is a seaplane tender. She was reclassified as such in the late 30s. Her designation is AV-3 now. I still look at her future sinking as the first American carrier loss though. Even though she was no longer CV-1.
To: PAR35
PAR35:
"Enterprise
Yorktown (until April, 1941)
Saratoga (undergoing refit in Bremerton until April 1941)
Lexington?" On December 7, 1941:
- Halsey's Enterprise was just returning from delivering aircraft to Wake Island.
Halsey was fully prepared for battle.
- Yorktown was serving in the Atlantic.
After Pearl Harbor, she was immediately transferred back to the Pacific, becoming the flagship for Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher's Task Force 17.
- Saratoga was still in refit on the West Coast.
- Admiral John Newton's Lexington was steaming towards Midway to deliver deliver aircraft there.
Newton was clueless.
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02/26/2011 6:16:17 AM PST
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: BroJoeK
But the article isn’t about December, it’s about the status of the forces as of February, 1941. In any event, the propaganda ministry is overstating the available forces.
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02/26/2011 12:00:47 PM PST
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PAR35
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