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To: HollyB

Reminds of the Yorktown at the Battle of Midway when the Japs hit her hard and then she bounced back the same day. They hit her a second and final time and she was scuttled, never to fight again.


50 posted on 05/23/2016 9:47:35 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie
Reminds of the Yorktown at the Battle of Midway when the Japs hit her hard and then she bounced back the same day. They hit her a second and final time and she was scuttled, never to fight again.

Yorktown was hit by aircraft twice. After the second air strike, she was manned by a skeleton crew and taken under tow. She was hit a third time (and sunk) by a Japanese submarine. Also sunk was the destroyer USS Hammond, which was towing Yorktown.

52 posted on 05/23/2016 9:53:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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