"Mysterious Haunted Battleships of World War II" Topic

"Some of the fiercest battles of World War II were fought on the sea. Here hulking steel beasts clashed in a thunderous, chaotic whirlwind of shells, torpedoes, smoke, fire, and death. For many of the great floating fortresses that joined in the fray casualties were a common occurrence, and for others these massive battleships became giant metal tombs as they sank into the depths with their many victims. In the years after the war, many of the mighty battleships of World War II have become memorials, monuments, or floating museums, surviving testaments to their bloody and heroic legacies. However, considering the sheer violence and death that these vessels have seen and been through, it may come as no surprise that it is not only history that has clung to them, but also perhaps supernatural phenomena beyond our understanding.---"
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Armand

Hmm. Well, I like a good ghost story as well as the next guy, and I don't expect ghost story writers to know every detail of military history (like I would expect of any and all that post on our forum) …

But still, even if he was just cutting and pasting materials he must have gotten from somewhere else, this particular author should have been able to edit up / write up something that made sense when read by a middle-school student. I mean, are there NO standards of coherency when non-historians author history?

His passage on the USS Hornet must rank among the most incoherent writings I have ever read:

The ship itself was commissioned in 1943, after which it enjoyed a glorious and highly decorated tour of duty in the Pacific Theater of World War II, fighting the Japanese in such major battles as the Battle of Midway, and was instrumental in the sinking of the Japanese super battleship the Yamato, before she was sunk in a full on assault during the Battle of Santa Cruz. The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge was later rechristened to USS Hornet in honor of the lost vessel, which also had an illustrious period of service throughout World War II and was put on display after its decommissioning in 1970…

So let's see, it participated in the Battle of Midway a year before it was commissioned, and it was sunk at Santa Cruz, then going on to sink the Yamato two years later. Yeah, that's a bit of a ghost ship, alright. Oh, and there was another ship that took the same name after it was sunk, that must have done some stuff too but gosh our poor author has no information on what the "other" Hornet might have done.

Sigh …

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Glup!…

Amicalement
Armand