Sunday Ship History at EagleSpeak

Quote of the Click

Victory is a thing of the will.

Ferdinand Foch

Operation Forward Pass - "gouge" for those entering the service

Technical Notes: Comments fixed! Gotta keep the .htaccess file current...

October 7th, 2007 by xformed

History about the first “Big E”. Worth a read…and, it fits well that this is also the day the CV-6 was commissioned in 1936.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 7th, 2007 at 10:41 am | View Timeline and is filed under Military History, History, Navy, Military. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Steeljaw Scribe said:
October 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Enterprise Week…

On a bright October Saturday in 1936, a sleek steel hull, 800 feet in length, towering over the assembled dignitaries and onlookers, slipped the ways of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company….