Material Readiness

Two carriers burning after separate kamikaze strikes. USS Franklin (CV-13), at right, and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) afire after being hit by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Photographed from USS Brush (DD-745). US Navy 80-G-326798

Admiral William Halsey Displeased With USS Franklin’s Readiness

Admiral William Halsey, Third Fleet commander, finds the setting of Material Condition ABLE on USS Franklin to be "unacceptable and...

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