To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Iris7; All
TGIF bump for the FReeper Foxhole. only it's Monday for me as I have to work this weekend.
One correction to your otherwise sterling comments regards Spruance Iris7. We only lost the Yorktown at Midway, Both Enterprise and Hornet survuived.
A couple of Hellcat pics from WW-II and then off to work I must go,grumble grumble
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
12 posted on
06/17/2005 3:17:17 AM PDT by
alfa6
(Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane!)
To: alfa6
Morning alfa6.
I can't imagine too many things worse than having your Friday be a Monday. ARRRRRRGH!!
25 posted on
06/17/2005 6:41:14 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(Why buy a product that takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?)
To: alfa6
57 posted on
06/17/2005 9:58:11 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(Why buy a product that takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?)
To: alfa6
This is one of my favorite aircraft photos. Oh looky, it's a FOG candidate as well.
To: alfa6
Nice job, Alfa. Darn, I knew that. Google reminds me that
Hornetwas lost at the Battle of Santa Cruz, October 26, 1942.
My uncle was on Enterprise during that battle. He said it was the worst he has seen. Must have been ferocious.
78 posted on
06/18/2005 12:38:48 AM PDT by
Iris7
("War means fighting, and fighting means killing." - Bedford Forrest)
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