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USS Enterprise: The aircraft carrier that changed everything turns 50
Daily Press ^ | September 24, 2010 | Peter Frost

Posted on 09/24/2010 10:14:46 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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To: tanknetter

I beg to differ. John Warner was Secnav; he was never the CNO.


81 posted on 09/26/2010 6:56:55 AM PDT by xvq2er
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To: xvq2er
I beg to differ. John Warner was Secnav; he was never the CNO.

My bad, I stand corrected. Thanks!
82 posted on 09/26/2010 8:13:37 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: skeeter
You'd think they'd mention ships of the Yorktown & Essex class before Forrestal.

Or the first carrier built from the keel up, Ranger (CV-4), launched in 1933. Carrier construction in the '30s (Ranger, Yorktown, Enterprise, Hornet) kept my grandfather working during the depression. A stimulus program that worked....


83 posted on 09/26/2010 8:28:22 AM PDT by Al B.
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