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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:05 pm 
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Rob Mears wrote:
You'd be suprised how many really rare WWII warbirds around the world survived well into the 1990's before being systematically destroyed. :shock:



...a couple of years ago, in the 90ties, the Spanish Navy returned the ex USS Cabot, an unmessed with WWII US aircraft carrier to the US, I may add THE ONLY unaltered example of a WWII carrier...and it was scapped as well. Now that is really sickening. Just imagine what kind of WWII US NAVY museum this could have been, a couple of Corsairs, Avengers, Hellcats on the deck, clad in camo and in full WWII spec. Tooo late now :(

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Was that the CVL that was lost in Texas?

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TimApNy wrote:
Was that the CVL that was lost in Texas?


...yes, that was it...


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The Cabot was berthed in the MS river by New Orleans for a while. The owners were trying to put together a museum but couldn't raise the funding. It was taken down to Brownsville and scrapped. A lot of the superstructure went to the Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo. I forgot where it's all being moved to.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/28.htm

http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/orgs/txairmus.htm


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What a sad story. Could have been a great time capsule.......


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