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This year's ACX Meetup everywhere in Oklahoma City, OK.
Location: Edmond Public Library/Shannon Miller Park. I will be wearing a hat that says USS Iowa on it. – 8674MG3C+MW
Contact: battleshipbean@gmail.com
Had four people last year and a good time, moved to Edmond because a lot of us are up here.
This year's ACX Meetup everywhere in Oklahoma City, OK.
Location: 45th Infantry Division Museum. The picnic shelter next to the planes. I will be wearing a hat that says USS Iowa on it. – ///direct.angle.flank
Contact: battleshipbean@gmail.com
>But we don't have to trust it, all that really matters is the aircraft carrier numbers, nothing else. As it turned out, the carrier was a hard counter to everything, even other carriers - the other ships in a carrier battle group are there to hunt submarines, supplement the carriers antiaircraft fire, and resupply the carriers.
This is not true. Carriers were powerful, yes, but also vulnerable. I point to the loss of Glorious and Samar as cases where they ended up under the guns of battleships and it didn't go great, and frankly Samar should have been so much worse than it was. And sinking ships with airplanes is quite difficult. The... (read more)