A video about the USS Franklin being struck by a Comet and the efforts of the crew and her escorts to save the ship.
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Kamikaze strike?
Yokosuka D4Y3 Model 33 āSuiseiā (āCometā in Japanese)
H.P.
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Ahhā¦lesson learnedā¦I thought spellcheck had really gone off the rails.
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About 11 years ago, a guy in my old IPMS chapter, OC IPMS built a diorama of that incident
It doesnāt show up in my photos, but there was even LED lighting in the hanger deck and rear plume to give a very realistic fire appearance.
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Very nice build! I went to High School in Chesapeake, Va, and during that time the Franklin had been moved to the breakerās yards in South Norfolk where I sadly watch her being broken up over the course of several months. At that time I remember that there was some talk that they were planning to save the island and preserve it somewhere as a museum/memorial.
But of course that sadly never happened.