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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Ship survivability (USS Midway)
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Date: 29 Jun 90 02:56:11 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner, OIR)
>... This sounds a lot more like Hiryu's experience than like
>Yorktown's.  Was the delay in putting out the fire the result of bad
>luck?  Or peacetime careless practices?  Or is there a fundamental
>problem? ...

I don't know details of the Midway incident, but in Friedman's book
"Carrier Air Power" (I think that's the correct title, it's not handy),
he comments that many losses of warships were due to minor oversights
and human errors rather than major design flaws.  Controlling a major
fire on board is a particularly unforgiving task.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry