Posted on 02/12/2016 6:44:29 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Read “A Glorious Way to Die”, it’s the true story about the last days of the Yamamoto.
Remember scads of FR posters who actually believed the casino in China story, you know, since it was reported in the “Main Stream Media” they gobbled up the story like hogs at a trough.
How about the USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier?
The Essex class Yorktown is the oldest carrier in the world that is still above water.
The Jap battleship Yamato and its sister the Musashi got blown to bits by U.S. fighter bombers, as like sunk into sliced up sections on the ocean floor. And that’s now a spaceship?
Better the sunken battleship Bismarck. At least she hit the bottom in one piece.
First thought is getting airborne, THEN you think I have to land.
That was an earlier ship, which the Japanese sunk.
Varyag was an unfinished carrier that had languished at Sevastopol since the break up of the Soviet Union. It was and is a piece of junk.
Wrong ship. Ship names get recycled. The ship to which you refer was sunk by the Jap planes in April 1942. You might as well have invoked an earlier HMS Hermes - perhaps the one captured from the Dutch in 1796, or the one sunk by the Americans in 1811. Or closer would have been the seaplane tender sunk by a German u-boat in 1914.
The ship sold to the Indians was originally slated to be the HMS Elephant but was renamed Hermes when the Elephant was cancelled in 1945.
There have been 11 HMS Hermes. The name is not currently in use.
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