and even worse...
Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:05 pm
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.
...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
Uwe
Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:21 pm
Was that the CVL that was lost in Texas?
Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:44 pm
TimApNy wrote:Was that the CVL that was lost in Texas?
...yes, that was it...
Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:19 pm
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
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/28.htm
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/orgs/txairmus.htm
Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:14 pm
What a sad story. Could have been a great time capsule.......