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Old 06-October-2008, 01:08 AM
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One or two observations, the crew aint observing it. The visible crew, and if it was visible then I would have thought the watch would be yelling big time and the escorts would be letting loose. Action stations and all that during launch. Just thinking of all the fueled and armed (?) planes on deck. Time period would be handy, suicide attacks had every one twitchy as heck. For good reason.
I agree. My dad was an anti-aircraft gunner on a CVE in the PTO. He witnessed the first Kamikaze attacks. His ship shot down an American plane because it approached the fleet with no radio contact.

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