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To: skeeter
"I hate to pick nits, but Nimitz was a man during WWII, and Coral Sea was a battle. Are you sure your friends weren't talking about some other war?"

There's a 1980 movie called "The Final Countdown" in which the USS Nimitz is time warped back to December 6, 1941. Charles Durning plays a US Senator who is rescued at sea and brought aboard the Nimitz and asks that very question, "What is a US Navy ship doing named after a serving Admiral?" The story line is kind of hoakey, but like "Top Gun" a few years later, was a good show of US Navy firepower.

Had it not been for the A-Bomb, there's a good chance the USS Coral Sea would have played a role. It along with the Midway and FDR were a new class of super-carriers that totally outclassed the Essex class flat tops that carried the bulk of the war in the Pacific, and arrived just a little too late. Like the A1 Skyraider they were to carry, they all proved their worth well into the Viet Nam war and beyond.

66 posted on 03/06/2010 12:57:10 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
There's a 1980 movie called "The Final Countdown" in which the USS Nimitz is time warped back to December 6, 1941.

This may explain Hank's confusion.

I wonder if there'll be any references to Admiral Kirk Douglas in his upcoming miniseries?

67 posted on 03/06/2010 12:59:10 PM PST by skeeter
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