Very educational post, scott967! My Dad, who was a Carrier guy (BSME1933, Georgia Institute of Technology, MSME Annapolis, Naval Architecture, 1939) was the lead hull designer of CV-9, the first modern Essex class ship. I believe that was the most reproduced carrier hull in the history of the U.S. Navy. I am certain that those vessels helped us to prevail in WWII!
I expect that there were few features designed to abate fire way back then, but I am sure that my father would buy you as many drinks as you could consume as long as you talked carriers or good-looking women.
His first fiancée was Eugene Ely's daughter. She left him for a guy with a smaller, errr, brain!
- Ed
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