"DDAY" wrote:

But it's
entirely believable that by the time they emerged from drydock, there was
really no need for them and so they got mothballed.

Franklin never went back into service. But everything I've seen says
she was fully repaired. The 1947 Navy had too many carriers as it
was. She was in good enough condition that part of her flight deck
was used to rebuild the Valley Forge following a fire.

Bunker Hill did go back into service and wasn't finally mothballed
until 1947. But her post war service was strictly to return troops
home.


Scott Peterson

--
If you have ever seen the movie Night of the
Living Dead, you have a rough idea how
modern corporations and organizations
operate, with projects and proposals that
everybody thought were killed constantly
rising from their graves to stagger back into
meetings and eat the brains of the living.
(Dave Barry)

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