Anniversary of Midway
The fighting @Swayes stopped the Jap navy in the Pacific*
*in before @YellowSnow chimes in with a more historically accurate description.
Comments
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GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.
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Definition of a "must win" game
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can’t remember if the scout planes were called strawberries or the callsign was strawberry but I’m 90% certain it was a strawberry that spotted the Japanese and that helped set the course of the battle.
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Chili Bean Ramos was there!
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you have learned well, grasshopper
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But it was on a neutral site.
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Carriers were a lot smaller back then
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Yorktown was 25,000 tons. The Ford Class boats are 100,000 tons.
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What about the elevation? Did you think of that?
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