Send out the carrier USS Wolverine to get that Iraqi sub...
Holy crap .... we actually built an aircraft carrier on the Great Lakes ??
Send out the carrier USS Wolverine to get that Iraqi sub...
Holy crap .... we actually built an aircraft carrier on the Great Lakes ??
Yep, and they were crucial in WWII naval aviatior training. The USS Wolverine will get that d@mn Iraqi sub for sure!
Aug. 12, 1942 - USS Wolverine (IX 64) commissioned at Buffalo, N.Y., Cmdr. G. R. Fairlamb, commanding. Wolverine and USS Sable (IX 81), commissioned May 1943, were Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aviation training . Sailing Lake Michigan, they provided flight decks on which hundreds of student aviators qualified for carrier landings and many flight deck crews received their first practical experience in handling aircraft aboard ship.
Ref: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-hist2.html