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Great video. I fast forwarded it through the "empty frame" shots but the images are amazing. It saddens me that we can photograph Hornet and Yorktown but Enterprise is gone forever.
I lament that Enterprise-aside the US can't give such great names to their carriers anymore. Politicians are well and good I suppose, but Saratoga, Yorktown? These are the foundational battles of the nation.Great video. I fast forwarded it through the "empty frame" shots but the images are amazing. It saddens me that we can photograph Hornet and Yorktown but Enterprise is gone forever.
I lament that Enterprise-aside the US can't give such great names to their carriers anymore. Politicians are well and good I suppose, but Saratoga, Yorktown? These are the foundational battles of the nation.
I don't mind Lincoln, Washington, or Roosevelt for a carrier -- these were Presidential badasses of the first order. Stennis or Vinson? Sorry, they carried some water for the Navy but were not salutary figures nationwide, Senators who had some vision at most. So I'd rather ditch all the politician's naming and go back to naming them after storied warships or battles of yore.
I will say that Nimitz should always have a flattop named after him, and not an amphibious assault ship.
I want Yorktown, Lexington, Sara, Hornet, and Wasp resurrected for fleet carrier names. I'm good with Essex too. And I would laugh and love it if we had another Shangri-La -- whoops upside your head, from a fictional place.
Agreed.I lament that Enterprise-aside the US can't give such great names to their carriers anymore. Politicians are well and good I suppose, but Saratoga, Yorktown? These are the foundational battles of the nation.
....and don't forget Coral Sea and Midway, those two are well overdue to be resurrected as well!
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Bon Homme Richard
Around my house, growing up, if one mentioned USS Yorktown it was presumed to refer to Yorktown CV-5. If you wanted to mention Yorktown CV-10, one would simply say "CV-10" and any discussion or mention of cruisers simply elicited a grunt or heavy sigh. Dad was a fighter pilot off Yorktown from June 1941 through the bitter end in June 1942, one of the last fighters launched into the face of the incoming Japanese torpedo planes. He shot down one and shared another with a destroyer.
Famous sailing ships and famous battles, they way they used to be named.I lament that Enterprise-aside the US can't give such great names to their carriers anymore. Politicians are well and good I suppose, but Saratoga, Yorktown? These are the foundational battles of the nation.
CVN-85 Wasp.
I figger by 2048 the name might be available.
Probably not, but at least the name has been perpetuated since 1989 in LHD-1 Wasp, lead ship of her class, that has operated USMC helicopters and AV-8B Harrier II.I doubt we'll ever see another Wasp as a carrier, for the same reason we'll never see another Arizona as any USN ship.
Beyond my previous list, I would add Wasp, Midway and Coral Sea.CVN-85 Wasp.
I figger by 2048 the name might be available.
EDIT: I meant CVN-86.