Launching the Big E
"May she also say with just pride: 'I have done the State some service.'" With these words, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, launches USS Enterprise CV-6 on 3 October 1936.
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| Source: William T. Barr "May she also say with just pride: 'I have done the State some service.'" With these words, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, launches USS Enterprise CV-6 on 3 October 1936. |
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