[GreenKeys] Navy plans to Sink America (off-topic)

[Roy Morgan]

At 10:47 PM 3/4/2005, Don Robert House wrote:...
>The aircraft carrier USS America will become the largest warship ever sunk.

While I was flying helicopters with the Navy Reserves, other guys in my 
squadron went to sea on the America.  I was not along for that trip.

>Issues surrounding a vessel bearing the name of its country are often more 
>sensitive than for other ships. In 1939, Adolf Hitler, fearful of a loss 
>of morale among his people should Germany's namesake ship be sunk, ordered 
>the pocket battleship Deutschland renamed for a long-dead Prussian commander.

I found a little more info on that at:
<http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2833/kriegsmarine/battleship/luetzow/luetzow.html>
"In February 1940, Adolf Hitler decided that the loss of a ship named after 
Germany could be a bad omen, and so she took the new name of Lützow. ...
The Lützow was sent to the Baltic for training duty but later supported the 
army against the Soviets in the eastern Baltic. On 16 April 1945 she was 
badly damaged by bombs at Swinemünde and on 4 May she was blown up and 
scuttled. The hulk was salvaged in 1947 by the Soviets and towed to 
Kaliningrad (Königsberg). She was beyond repair and was scrapped at 
Leningrad. "

Roy

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