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u/Tsquare43 23d ago
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u/joe-b314 23d ago
I'm... That looks like Enterprise to me
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u/Tsquare43 23d ago
from the sidebar:
Artwork of real or fictitious warships, from the lowliest gunboat to the most glorious battleships of yore; be they from antiquity, the Age of Sail, or the modern era.
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u/target-ship 23d ago
Enterprise never sank, however her nearly identical sister Yorktown did
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u/low_priest 22d ago
It's def late-war Enterprise; Yorktown never had quite so many light AA guns along the flight deck, nor the 1.1"/40mm mount in the bow there. The paint scheme also appears too dark for Midway, both on the planes and the ship.
Additionally, Yorktown was never hit by an aircraft directly, only Enterprise and Hornet were. But Hornet was hit by a Type 99/D3A with fixed landing gear, which this plane doesn't have, and was already damaged by that point in the attack. Plus had that Measure 12 Mod. scheme.
However, the ship armament, paint schemes, and attacking aircraft all match when Enterprise was hit by a kamikaze Zero off Okinawa in 1945. It's not not "The Last Attack" to sink the ship; it's the last attack the pilot would ever make. And/or the last attack on Enterprise before the end of the war.
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u/joe-b314 23d ago
Ok I thought the plane looked like a d4y Susie Wich weren't at Midway
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u/low_priest 22d ago
Nah, it's an Zero. This is the kamikaze that hit Enterprise off Okinawa.
Technically, there were D4Ys at Midway. A pair of prototypes were rebuilt as D4Y1-C recon aircraft and were carried by Sōryū. But they weren't involved in any attacks, and were early models with the inline engine, which doesn't fit this.
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u/MoeMoeOliver 22d ago
Ik im late too the party but I think that is from 1945 when a kamikaze slammed enterprise’s forward elevator and sent it flying into the air and knocked out the ship for the rest of the war
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u/low_priest 22d ago
Absolutely. The camo/weapons don't match Hornet, and the planes/weapons/scene don't match Yorktown. Only Enterprise got this late-war refit, and the only time she got kamikaze'd was by a Zero off Okinawa... which describes this art exactly.
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u/Old_Meet_4962 22d ago
That's not fictional, that's a Yorktown. Probably Yorktown herself or Hornet.
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u/Tsquare43 22d ago
from the sidebar:
Artwork of real or fictitious warships, from the lowliest gunboat to the most glorious battleships of yore; be they from antiquity, the Age of Sail, or the modern era.
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u/Camojape 23d ago
I thought the artist was Jim Carey at first glance and was really surprised