I don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a great personal account of the Yorktown at Midway by one of her radiomen. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...r-was-sunk-member-crew-told-us-how-73021It's a great read. Hard to fathom what those folks went through, God bless them all. They truly were the Greatest Generation!
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
-Robert Heinlein
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