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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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To: NorthMountain

Thanks NM, I stand corrected. I knew the details were more than I posted but I had to truncate due to smartphone-skill limitations:-)~ What I really wanted was to post something for later read. The point is, Baltimore may have been brought online after the first round of pointless riots but is going down again and will probably stay down - as a viable center for commerce.


56 posted on 05/23/2016 10:05:15 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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