Anonymous 10/23/2022 (Sun) 16:27 No.5819 del
#OTD in 1949, the Truman administration canceled construction of the the first supercarrier, USS United States. Ironically, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was laid down in 1993 as the USS United States but was changed as part of the compromise to name CVN-76 for Ronald Reagan.




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