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Posts Tagged ‘USS Enterprise’
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Video Thursday 2.17.11 Planes and Seacoast Mortars
Posted: Feb 17, 2011Today we start off with some classic rare video clips from the 1941 movie “Dive Bomber.” Stars Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray were the main characters in the movie, which […]
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World's First Nuclear Aircraft Carrier!
Posted: Feb 04, 2011The keel of the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was laid 04 February 1958. She was commissioned on 25 November 1961 as a CVAN (Nuclear Attack […]
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Happy Birthday Fighting Lady aka USS Yorktown!
Posted: Dec 01, 2010Today sixty-nine years ago, the keel of the USS Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding, not far from the battle site of Yorktown, Virginia. The mighty Fighting Lady (nickname […]