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To: robert a belfer who wrote (1652)	2/10/2014 12:55:39 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 20428

Re: Our Carriers We were sure lucky not to lose more of them in the Pacific. The story about the Jap Zero being a firetrap is well known, but not how much of a firetrap their carriers were. They just could not take bombing. That's the reason we sank four of them so easily at Midway. Ours were better built and had much better firefighting equipment and training. The loss of the Yorktown demonstrated to the Navy how bad our torpedoes were. We put several into it to sink it and they were all duds. It makes me shake my head to realize the loss of our Torpedo Squadron 8 at Midway was done when they were carrying dud torpedoes anyway. That was the battle where we learned we needed to carry more fighters on the Carriers and to keep the Carriers bunched for mutual protection.

To: robert a belfer who wrote (1652)	2/10/2014 1:18:04 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20428

It's always sad when a great ship goes for scrap. A few have been restored and revered for the history that took place on their decks. The USS Constitution, the USS Missouri, the USS New Jersey. The New Jersey was pressed back into service during the Gulf War, where it scared the hell out of every Iraqi within 20 miles. I haven't seen the Forrestal, but I toured the Constellation. It was so big I could hardly comprehend that it could be a moving object carrying hundreds of big moving objects and thousands of men. en.wikipedia.org Like the Forrestal, it was not a nuke.

To: robert a belfer who wrote (1652)	2/10/2014 6:16:06 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20428

Thanks for the correction. I looked it up, the Kitty Hawk was the 1st nuc aircraft carrier. RE the below - nuclear reactor compartments had arrived, by barge via the Columbia River, to the Hanford Site (Hanford Nuclear Reservation) for long term storage. The reactor compartment is the 122nd to be received by Hanford from ex-US Navy ships and submarines. [3]" That is going to be an issue. All those old ship reactors plus the old and still "dirty" Hanford reactors used to make nuke weapons make Hanford a problem waiting to happen.