And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
F6F-5s of VF-27 on USS Independence (CVL-22), July 1945
That's quite a roll to work with.
ReplyDeleteCLEVELAND class light cruisers were lively. I don't think replacing the guns and superstructure with a hanger deck, and flight deck helped any.
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