You know, it wasn't that much later IOTL when USS Washington gave a heck of an accounting of herself at night under "Ching" Lee at the Second Naval Battle Of Guadalcanal. Radar spotted with the right man in charge (which probably means not Pye) is devastating.
FDR was ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was well steeped in Navy tradition. An implicit example of him naming a ship is USS Shangri-La (CV-38). Plus, note that, IRL, all of the ships named for carriers sunk in battle in WWII were Essex class - even to the point of naming an Essex class...
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The computer system here at the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute does not seem to like that URL. Apparently I will have to wait until I get home to see it.
What if Admiral Kimmel stays on until Admiral Nimitz shows up on December 31, 1941?
The reason I ask is Vice Admiral Pye was considered overly cautious and cancelled the attempt by USS Saratoga to relive Wake that Kimmel had set in motion. If Kimmel stays, that operation is more likely to go...
I see what happened. I missed 3rd Submarine (pg 339). However, 3rd Submarine was sailing for Kwajalein since they would need to refuel. Plenty of opportunity to halt them there.