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Subj: US NAVY HISTORY 11-28 TO 12-4
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THIS WEEK IN NAVAL HISTORY – NOV. 28 TO DEC. 4
NOV. 28
1775 -Congress adopts first rules for regulation of the "Navy of the United Colonies."
1941 -USS Enterprise (CV 6) sails from Pearl Harbor for Wake Island to ferry Marine aircraft to island.
1942 - Ensigns George W. Carlson and Mac A. Carson organize rescue parties to help rescue people from the fire at the Cocoanut
Grove nightclub in Boston, Mass. They are credited, "the cause of saving more lives than any other single agency."
NOV. 29
1775 -Capt. John Manley in schooner Lee captures British ordnance ship Nancy with large quantity of munitions.
1890 -First Army-Navy football game (Navy won 24-0).
1929 -Cmdr. Richard Byrd makes first flight over South Pole.
1944 -USS Archerfish (SS 311) sinks Japanese carrier Shinano, world's largest warship sunk by any submarine during World War II
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