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From: denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste)
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Subject: Re: Untrue truths in the movies
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Date: 13 Dec 89 04:27:12 GMT
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From: Steven Den Beste <denbeste@BBN.COM>

In article <12215@cbnews.ATT.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (*I*) wrote:
>And I'd like to take this opportunity to praise the
>best single decision made by any officer on either side during this battle,
>that being when Admiral Fletcher transferred command to Admiral Spruance after
>Lexington was crippled.
>

Oops.

I guess I just got voted out of the club. Lexington was lost at the battle of
Coral Sea. It was Yorktown which Fletcher was on at Midway. My apologies.