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Originally Posted by Dignan
That's an amazing story about your grandfather on the Yorktown. Something to be proud of indeed.
It's pretty typical that they didn't talk about it much. As you pointed out, the Aaron Ward had many men killed in different battles so I can imagine it was an intimately personal experience when your ship mates got killed. The Ward was eventually sunk by a Japanese high altitude bomber as you alluded to. He was aboard her that day and somewhere I have a letter from him to a scuba diver who dove on the wreck in 1995 and wanted to talk to survivors. Maybe I'll scan it and put it up here. It is very short, which was typical of my grandpa, but he talks about watching the bomb fall and being thankful it didn't hit the bridge (he was the Communications Officer so was on the bridge a lot.)
The battle I described in my earlier post was the November night engagement. I may do what you say and head there for a patrol to time it with November 1942 to watch it unfold. SHould be interesting.
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You would enjoy it, at night with the sound it really is very historical, obvious we can change that.
I believe the Aaron was a Graves class,,if it's spelled that way. Didn't ID one, not sure if they're in the game.
I used my Tulagi save to go ahead and attack the CA force I ignored before. It made a pass at GC and got attacked by the PT boats.
Nov 14 I found another US TF with two NC BB's leading. It came from Florida Island pass per history. It ran into a convoy of 5 Nagara's and sunk them all.
I couldn't keep up with it. It then took on 3 IJN TF, so another large surface battle. Another Kongo group came, but turned back...