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I got started looking into the Mighty movie because my grandfather served aboard, and
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you know, he was, like a lot of men of his generation,
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he didn't want to talk about the war, but he would just sort of
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hint at some of the things that had happened to him. Obviously, you
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know, he'd seen some action and there'd been some trauma there. It was
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a ship that the Navy didn't want you with a captain who was nearly scapegoaded
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for loss of his last command, that the crew had been in uniform barely
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longer than the ship had been afloat, the pilot self trained on the planes
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they'd fly into battle, and you know, her first few months in service,
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she had this terrible jinx, this awful streak of bad luck. And
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yet despite that, this ship that nobody expected that much from went on to
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a sort of earn a tremendous combat record, survived a terrible typhoon, and
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ended up the only US aircraft carrier in Tokyo Bay to see the Japanese surrender.
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So it's quite an underdog story.