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Originally Posted by Ducimus
True. But here was a boat that finished her last patrol in Febuary 1945. She finished most of the war, and was there as a participant on day 1 of WW2 for the US.
I never understood why the Navy would use old boats as target ships. Now i think i do. Sinking the Tautog as a target would have been a better ending for that boat then the scrappers torch. Being sunk as a target would have given the boat something akin to "a soliders death" as it were.
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The Enterprise suffered the scrap fate, she certainly deserved to be sunk as a reef. Hard to believe they couldn't get the funds to make a memorial or museum out of her in New York, but they tried.. Always thought it was a shame that such a famous warship that fought more battles than any US warship was not made a floating museum