Posted on 05/31/2026 5:51:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
You might not know his name, but without Carl Vinson, the world, and certainly the US Navy, might have been vastly different.
Note: Just because you can think up a reason to criticize doesn't mean that you are obligated to do so. Pedantic is not a compliment folks. Father of the Two Ocean Navy: Carl Vinson | 17:37
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[clip from the transcript] ...What really did happen was that this Georgia congressman was more responsible than any other person for creating the fleet that won the Second World War. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Carl Vinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1974, President Richard Nixon honored Carl Vinson by naming the nation's third nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson. The University of Georgia Institute of Public Affairs was renamed the Carl Vinson Institute of Government in 1983.
His support for the Navy included support for Antarctic research, and the 16,500 ft Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica, is named after him. The man who was called the father of the two-ocean navy, who served in Congress under eight US presidents, passed away in 1981 at the age of 97.
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There is one major deficiency in the presentation: It wasn’t the construction of ships before WWII that made the rapid expansion of the two-ocean Navy possible; it was the construction of shipyards, on the West Coast, particularly Mare Island at the east end of San Pablo Bay where so many “liberty ships” were built. Concurrent with that was construction of steel mills and aluminum smelting on the West Coast, the latter made possible at all with the Grand Coulee Dam and other WPA edifices along the western scrap of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The was part of a LONG preparation of the infrastructure of war by the Roosevelt Administration, from the aircraft industry in LA to even the location of the World’s Fair in San Francisco with which to build bases at Treasure Island and Alameda.
Without the core skilled labor for each of these industries with which to train those who would join them in WWII, NONE of the rapid growth in production that ensued would have been remotely possible. THIS is where we are deficient now in attempting to re-home our manufacturing capabilities, and the schools aren’t making that any easier.
America’s two ocean Navy was made possible by James K Polk—possibly our most underrated President!
From the moment Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay, we were on a collision course with Japan.
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