So I think we should do something different with the card. The existing USS Hornet card is already a bookmark. I would hate to see poor Hornet get another card that will never be used.
Since the first Hornet card isn't used much I think we have room to make this version more playable. Flak and I would like to propose this instead.
Last Edit: Sept 15, 2024 0:46:05 GMT by weedsrock2
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Rework the two “only”s in the first two sentences Do they really call it the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands? Fix the run-on sentence in the middle 4 not four
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USS Hornet was commissioned only a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Within a year of commissioning she and USS Enterprise fought in the Battle of Santa Cruz. Hornet's aircraft managed to damage Shokaku, but Hornet was subjected to a textbook coordinated torpedo bomber and dive bomber attack: 3 bomb hits and 2 torpedo hits plus 2 aircraft crashing into her. Later in the day she was hit by a torpedo again and lost power. After US destroyers failed to scuttle her with 16 torpedoes and 400 5 in shells, the arriving Japanese fleet finally sank her with 4 long-lance torpedoes.
You wonder if the USN wouldn't have benefitted from leaving the IJN to waste thier ammo finishing her off, they'd not have had the capacity to recover her.