From: Douglas Thom (douglas.thom@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 09:10:08 PDT
That was hysterical! I'm a Canadian working in New York so, of course,
I sent that around the office and received the appropriate hilarity.
I should point out that your history is incorrect. That is the SECOND
aircraft carrier. The FIRST one, we tried putting "water wings" on the
wings of an aircraft and gave that a shot. As you can imagine, this
one was more successful but it was a bitch rowing fast enough to
create lift on the wings.
On 8/18/05, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 7:45 AM -0400 8/18/05, Stu wrote:
> >Here is the original picture. Not pretty, but it works.
> >
> > http://www.nickscipio.com/funstuff/archive9/2005-07-06_canadiancarrier.html
>
> Heh....
>
> Whats sad is they used to have the second largest air force in the world and used to have ships like Warrior: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/images/other/r31-1.jpg
> Or Bonaventure: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/images/other/cvl22-2.jpg
> or Magnificent: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/images/other/cvl21.jpg
>
> Lowley escort carriers like HMS Nabob went into harms way to strike at Tirpiz in '44 (Operation Goodwood) and then again into the Barents sea for convoy operations. She was torpedoed by a German Sub in both cases but survived.
>
> Lets not forget Canada had her own beach at Normandy.
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