#oc uss guadalcanal (lph 7)

[greatwesternway]

What would the first Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal II think of one another if they met?

Guadalcanal the Second (LPH-7) would find Guadalcanal the First's (CVE-60) wartime behavior to be questionable, but would (in a condescending way) excuse it for his being an aircraft carrier. One cannot help being soft if they're just a support unit after all.

Can Do would find his successor to be worryingly cocky (as opposed to his own disposition which sits closer to smug), but it would be hard to argue that the Golden Guad hadn't lived up to the name. It is a very specific notoriety (and indicative of their particular shared character), being the only two ships in the U.S. Navy to capture enemy vessels this century.

In a continuity where the second Guadalcanal takes to visiting U-505 at the MSI and somehow the first Guadalcanal had way to have an opinion about it, he'd appreciate the follow up. He very much regretted that U-505 was put up as a monument rather than being destroyed as he surely would have preferred. Much as U-505 belonged to Guadalcanal though, Guadalcanal belonged Captain Gallery and Captain Gallery belonged to the U.S. Navy. Whatever either of them would have wanted, they were both beholden to powers greater than their own.

He'd also find it terribly amusing that U-505 maintains a pretense of treating he and his namesake as one and the same. U-505's obligation to prize rules ended when the first Guadalcanal was scrapped. The second Guadalcanal is very obviously not the same ship and so he has no claim. U-505 doesn't have to acknowledge him at all. That he does is because it's nice to have a shiny new warship (who actually behaves like one) come to visit you. Still, it's an utterly laughable circumstance when Germans are supposed to be so straightforward. Can Do would be miffed that U-505 liked the new Guadalcanal enough to do all this if it weren't so ridiculous.

And, you know, if you feel guilty about how capturing this guy led to his being placed in indefinite service to his enemies, then it's nice to know that the new you is, in a small part, making it up to him.