Vintage Coral Sea Mishaps

[a-6intruder]

http://www.usscoralsea.net/pages/video.html#71505

A nice thread with several great plat tape videos of mishaps on the Coral Maru, including a successful A-3 Whale barricade.

Take the time to select the hot links that give greater details of the mishaps. Some spectacular crashes surprisingly had a happy ending. Unfortunately, some did not...

 

[feddoc]

Wow, that is a great find.

"He counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong".

President Ronald Reagan speaking about Kadaffi and the US (counter) attack on Libya.

 

[brownshoe]

Wow, that is a great find.

Yeah! No kidding. It’ll take awhile to go though it all, but yep some great stuff.

Steve