Posted on 12/28/2006 9:33:44 AM PST by neverdem
Good find. I revise my statement back again since I found that same picture of CVL-22 (USS Independence) on this site as well identified as the same. It also shows Independence Class carriers as having one catapult.
A darn fine performance by Lieutenant Ford.
Or Operation Drumbeat, the U-Boat massacre off the Eastern Seaboard where a couple dozen U-Boats sunk 500 ships in a 6 month period starting in June of 1942.
The FReeper Foxhole Revisits Typhoon Cobra ~ Disaster at Sea (18 December 1944) - Dec. 27th, 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1047211/posts
Typhoon Cobra strikes Third Fleet - December 1944
http://www.odyssey.dircon.co.uk/cobra.htm
the book:
Typhoon the other enemy.
Yes
"This guy needs to do a little research before saying something like that."
The NY Times has a history of showing you do NOT need to do any research before having an article posted.
"Aside from Gerald Ford, that's an interesting sentence. The author calls this the Navy's "worst 'defeat'"? Uh, what about Pearl Harbor (over 2000 sailors and soldiers killed) or even the Battle of Savo Island in '42 (over 1000 allied sailors lost). This guy needs to do a little research before saying something like that."
I'll disagree. If Halsey did that in peacetime with all of those losses, he would have been sacked. Gratuitous insults to the NY Times advances nothing and yields no insight. If you want to know what they are thinking, they have to be read.
Thank you for the links. Somehow, I missed them when they were active.
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