Anniversary of Midway

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930306470781820958

The fighting @Swayes stopped the Jap navy in the Pacific*

*in before @YellowSnow chimes in with a more historically accurate description.

 

[YellowSnow]

GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.

 

[Tequilla]

GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.

Definition of a "must win" game

 

[RaceBannon]

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

can’t remember if the scout planes were called strawberries or the callsign was strawberry but I’m 90% certain it was a strawberry that spotted the Japanese and that helped set the course of the battle.

 

[NookTunnelSyndrome]

Chili Bean Ramos was there!

 

[BearsWiin]

GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.

you have learned well, grasshopper

 

[PurpleThrobber]

GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.

But it was on a neutral site.

 

[RaceBannon]

Carriers were a lot smaller back then

 

[YellowSnow]

Carriers were a lot smaller back then

Yorktown was 25,000 tons. The Ford Class boats are 100,000 tons.

We keep building them but seems like they’ll be out of date technology some day which is sad.

 

[pawz]

GOAT win for America over a foreign opponent.

But it was on a neutral site.

What about the elevation? Did you think of that?

.