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frontline: the navy blues: History of the USS Enterprise | PBS (930 words) |
 | A bottle of champagne shattered on the bow of the awesome new warship, USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), breaking the silence of an anxious crowd at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va. It was Sunday morning, Sept 24,1961, when Mrs. |
| William B. Franke, wife of former Secretary of the Navy, christened the eigth USS Enterprise, bringing life the longest, tallest, and mightiest warship to ever sail the seas. |
| At the commissioning of the Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally, Jr., called it a worthy successor to the highly decorated seventh USS Enterprise of World War II. |
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