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To: 9422WMR

A trickier find would be Hornet CV-8 that was sunk by Japanese destroyers when it was abandoned after Santa Cruz.

American destroyers tried with 9 torpedoes to sink her but they didn’t explode and 400 5” shells. They had to flee the area when the Japanese showed up and finished the job.


31 posted on 03/06/2018 11:01:55 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Our torpedoes in the early part of the war were an abomination on our fighting man. Failure to detonate was a chronic complaint. Someone should have went to jail for that cluster*&^% they foisted upon our sailors.


33 posted on 03/06/2018 11:13:16 AM PST by sarge83
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