Of all the red-letter days marked by the famed ship builders of Newport News, Oct. 3, 1936 has to rank among the reddest.
That’s when one of the most successful warships in U.S. history slid down the ways into the James River, just a few years before …
Newport News Shipbuilding delivered a knock-out punch with the Oct. 3, 1936 launch of the fightingest ship of WWII