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by Threetoughtrucks » Sat Mar 10, 2012 2:24 pm
Interesting to know. When I was a kid, I spent an afternoon walking around the original CV-6 "Enterprise", history screaming from every inch and filling my mush brain. It was the mid 1950's and the "Big E" was in Bayonne Army Terminal waiting to be scrapped in Kearney, NJ, as I remember. One of my Uncles, a tin can sailor from WW2, brought me to the ship and talked us past security to tour the ship (he told them he had been on the "Big E"). No power so we couldn't go below decks. Just the hanger deck and the flight deck. There were brass plates in the flight deck where bombs had hit "On this spot on such & such a date, a Japanese bomb exploded". For a kid fascinated with WW2, and having spent every family gathering listening to stories from my 8 Uncles who had served, it was a golden afternoon. Only one of my Uncles refused to tell me anything, he was in Europe from DDay to the end. Lots of battles and medals (from his discharge papers after he took a dirt nap). The rest, told great stories from serving in the Navy, Coast Guard (my Dad), Army and Army Air Forces. As usual mostly funny stories but all interesting.
TTT
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