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So that is where they park the Boomers!

And

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A plane handler signals a pilot from the “Pukin’ Dogs” of Strike Fighter Sqaudron (VFA) 143 on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Look behind the plane handler and you'll see the cat shuttle coming back......

It'll be interesting to watch planes launch from the Gerald Ford with the new electromagnetic launch system. No more steam leakage from the cats!!!
 
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The New Role of Fragmentation Bombs

When the United States forces began to move forward the need for a bomb to be used against troops became clear, and the theatres began to demand the 20-pound fragmentation bomb. Standardized in 1940 and adopted by the Joint Aircraft Committee early in 1942 as the AN-M41,26 this small bomb weighed not more than 23 pounds, even with a parachute attachment. It was not dropped singly, but by sixes in a cluster that would fit in an airplane’s 100-pound bomb station. Clustering was made possible by the use of an adapter consisting of a hollow rod to which the bombs were wired. When the adapter was released from the aircraft an arming wire was pulled, activating a cartridge with a steel slug that cut the wires holding the bombs. The bombs fell free, arming themselves with their own arming vanes. Later design modification eliminated the cartridge and substituted clamped straps
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The parafrag bomb in action. Old Namlea Airdrome, Boerce Island, Netherlands Indies, is shown during a low-level bombing attack by the U.S. Fifth Air Force.
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http://tothosewhoserved.org/usa/ts/usatso01/chapter17.html
 
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grelmar said:
The USS Franklin in New York in April, 1945:

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She survived, was completely refurbished, and promptly mothballed, never to see active service after the war (in spite of being completely refurbed).
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Kind of reminds you of the HMCS Bonaventure doesn't it??? She was sold to Brazil as scrap in fighting condition and used as such for close to a decade or more before being broken up.
 
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