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To: 60Gunner
Its a book I have read many times. Lord does a great job of humanizing the battle from the American perspective. It's very inspirational in that respect.

I'm not sure any book gives Dick Best all the credit he deserves for killing two carriers that day.

54 posted on 06/03/2015 4:17:18 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

I visited the Nimitz museum George H W Bush Gallery in Fredicks burgh Texas a few weeks ago.

His actual log book was there and very neatly entered were the date, weather , aircraft type and flight time in black ink were the Remarks..... scratch two flat tops in red ink
(it might have said carriers instead of flat tops)

That log book was one of the most moving exhibits I have seen in any museum

While on the subject among FRiends, there is the American Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola. It is a fantastic museum and very well done. I was going in April but ran out of time. The owner of Enterprise car rental which he named for his carrier, donated $10 million for a new building. I saw the large building some time back but it wasn’t ready yet.

It is better than the Air Force counterpart in Dayton.


55 posted on 06/03/2015 4:27:05 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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