very cool!...I didnt remember these until i started watching,---saw the starting logo-- then it kicked it. this is a great series, I am wondering why the AHC has never shown this series??
As the Battle of Coral Sea was happening right now back in 1942, this article came out discussing some possible different outcomes.
Alternative endings to the first aircraft carrier battle
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/alternative-endings-to-the-first-aircraft-carrier-battle
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Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. A "mushroom cloud" rises after a heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. This is probably the "great explosion" from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that followed an explosion amidships at 1727 hrs. Note USS Yorktown (CV-5) on the horizon in the left center, and destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) at the extreme left.
They have picked a location in DC for a new museum. Heard it from a Navy History type at Oceana at the show. She wouldn't tell me where.For 95% of the folks who would go to a museum that would be unreasonable. They really need to move it off base or to somewhere the public can access easily like the Naval Aviation Museum.
Hopefully upwind from DC Water.Anacostia Park across from the Yard. She is mistaken, however, as the deal is not done. It involves a complicated land swap and then a multi-year fund raising effort. If the Navy is lucky it will have a true National Museum in about 10 to 15 years.
That special sauce is cooked up way down river! I wonder if the smart folks at NRC really spend the majority of their time figuring out how to stop the stench.Hopefully upwind from DC Water.
If so, they haven't figured it out yet. ?That special sauce is cooked up way down river! I wonder if the smart folks at NRC really spend the majority of their time figuring out how to stop the stench.
Sure, Liberty Drive is a beautiful thing...but it took 25 years to get there!10 to 15........the Navy needs to get it"s shit together. The Army got its turn lane built. and it's traffic lights turned on already.
I will say this, if they don’t put a historic ship at the new museum I will be....disgruntled. A Navy museum without a ship?Thanks Griz. Makes sense.
True...........That new traffic light along with the other 3 lights will make getting to 95 from J Kingman Rd just that more of a shit show.Sure, Liberty Drive is a beautiful thing...but it took 25 years to get there!
Only a madman really wants to get to that part of 95.True...........That new traffic light along with the other 3 lights will make getting to 95 from J Kingman Rd just that more of a shit show.