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| The USS Cowpens - aka The Mighty Moo - was blessed with less-than-heroic beginnings. Even before she saw military combat, she suffered a series of humiliating defeats. |
| 2024-06-03 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] How the most unlucky aircraft carrier in the US fleet - from its jinxed captain to hungover pilots, fatal fires and even a disaster involving missing dentures - became an unlikely war hero (despite its R-rated logo). Then she was the only US aircraft carrier to witness Japanese surrender in 1945. But her beginnings were far from heroic – named for a little-known battle fought in a field full of cows during the Revolutionary War, and with a somewhat explicit bull logo that had to be painted over every time they got to port lest it 'upset the civilians'. Everyone who served aboard her knew it was ridiculous — but they latched onto the name with enthusiasm. And soon, some unknown wit coined the nickname she carried throughout her career: The Mighty Moo. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 I've been to the battlefield. It is very small. |
| Posted by: Deacon+Blues 2024-06-03 20:58 |
| #6 a little-known battle fought in a field full of cows during the Revolutionary War "Some sort of commotion over in the colonies. Might as well be the damn Balkans!" I read the stories about "bad luck" and I see a bunch of guys taking what they were given in a bad situation and trying their best to make something of it. Pretty heroic, in my book. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-06-03 20:24 |
| #5 Little known battle? Is this that famous British humor I keep hearing about? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-06-03 18:56 |
| #4 have been little may have been a little known Revolutionary War battle but it was a significant one. Set the stage for weakened Cornwallis forces to be defeated at Yorktown. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2024-06-03 14:12 |
| #3 You have an alternative source for the remembrance, Ed? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-03 10:05 |
| #2 Also in the funny name category, the USS Badoeng Strait was known throughout the Navy as the Bing-Ding. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-03 08:40 |
| #1 This is a Daily Mail "Exclusive"! In red, even. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-03 08:28 |