bakubo wrote:
A couple of weeks ago we spent the weekend in Corpus Christi. Old friends from California were there for a few days so we drove over to spend the weekend with them since it has been several years since we had been able to see each other. Two of us wanted to visit the USS Lexington so we spent a few hours there. I have more photos of the ship in the Texas gallery:
http://www.bakubo.com/Galleries%202/index.html
In 2000 I also visited the WWII USS Yorktown CV-10 aircraft carrier in Charleston, South Carolina and the USS Alabama BB-60 battleship in Mobile, Alabama. One of these days I want to visit the WWI and WWII USS Texas BB-35 in Houston, Texas.
That all sounds like something I would like to do Henry, my brother has been to the Arizona memorial in Perl Harbour and also visited USS Missouri (BB-63); he said it was an experience not to be missed.
The Yorktown is another famous name and (CV-10) is also a replacement of the original, (from referring to Wiki, I knew the name from past readings of the Pacific action but had forgotten some of the details). The USS Yorktown (CV-5) was in the Coral Sea battle with Lexington and was badly damaged as well at that time, she was an aircraft carrier that went down fighting, this time at the later battle of Midway, well, went down the next day from heavy battle damage and additionally being hit by more torpedoes from a Japanese sub while a sitting target, along with the attending destroyer USS Hammann.
The carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet (Hornet lost most of her planes in the following action) were also in the Midway battle, (they had previously been busy with the Doolittle raid) planes from the Enterprise sank two Japanese carriers, and a mix of planes from the Yorktown sank another, the Yorktown sank one more before she was knocked out of action herself.
USS Saratoga had not yet returned from a refit, (she had been torpedoed trying to save Wake Is. but survived) some of her planes and crew were part of the action operating from the Yorktown.
The carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost a short time later in the Solomon Is. battle and later replaced with USS Hornet (CV-12) previously named USS Kearsarge.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) also had an illustrious WWII career but I haven’t finished reading and refreshing my memory about her exploits.
Greg
Ps some great shots of CV-16 there in the Corpus Christi section H.
Pps I liked the links, those tumbleweeds are a real pest, dangerous too if they stack up against a house and catch on fire by damaging the electrical connection.
Lots of common sense in the Online Photographer posts, the only thing I think FF does well (in defense of larger formats) is wide angle, ok ok make that, it ‘potentially’ can do wide angle better IF you have the lenses that can perform on such a large area sensor.
. Having to sweep up leaves in the winter is bad enough. Glad we don't have these filling up our backyard!
Since starting with digital I have used various DSLRs, but try to have a digicam of some sort with me almost all the time.
