You can believe that story if you want to.
I don’t.
The USS Nimitz will be delayed due to the need for extensive repairs on a failed propulsion pump.
Remember the Yorktown:When she pulled into Pearl Harbor on June 1, 1942*, she was badly damaged; from a direct bomb-hit which had struck the flight deck, pierced it, and finally exploded in the bowels of the ship, six decks down; from a second bomb which caromed off her flight gallery forward on the starboard side and exploded upon hitting the water, peppering the shell above the water-line with shrapnel holes; and from a third near miss which exploded in the water close enough to the side to open the seams, and corrugate the bottom on the port side, amidships.
She went back out on June 2nd. repaired and ready to fight.
1400 men worked on her all day and all night.
The Nimitz has a bad propulsion pump, don’t know when she can leave port.