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Published: 2015-07-07 06:05:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1226; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 14
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A Vought F-8 Crusader on the flight deck of the Essex Class USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, CA.A belated happy Independence Day to you all.
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Sorry, but CV(N)-6 USS Enterprise was they Grey Ghost.
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Oddly enough, they both are (Google "The Grey Ghost USS..." and see what it give you to autocomplete).
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Well, I've found very few instances where that name is applied. In fact, I've only found one. And that was attributed to her being haunted, which doesn't make the ship itself a "ghost". Enterprise was called that because she was reported sunk by the Japanese 3 times.
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It's here:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/USS…
and a couple of times on the Ship's (museum) website as well. I'm fairly certain they refer to it as such on the tour, but I was most recently there last July (when this photo was taken).
To confuse matters further, apparently the RMS Queen Mary was also called the Grey Ghost while serving as a troop ship.
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The last true gunfighter---and John Glenn's record setting type.
All in all a magnificent piece of engineering.
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