Author Topic: Tomorrow night on History Channel (Read 1511 times)

Treize69 · « **on:** February 28, 2008, 10:17:50 AM »

http://www.history.com/minisites/battle_360

I'll have the DVR set, I know that. Looks like it'll be an interesting way to kill an hour or two. And they're running it with "minimul commercial interruption" supposedly too.

MjTalon · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2008, 10:46:26 AM »

time to pop out the good ol DvD for this one

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Fencer51 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2008, 11:42:54 AM »

Brought to you by "Enterprise" Car Rental. Now this is effective use of advertising dollars.

waystin2 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2008, 11:46:39 AM »

Thanks for the heads up Treize69. Looks cool, will be setting the DVR tonight!

Shuffler · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2008, 11:58:04 AM »

oo HDDVD will be recording

Puck · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2008, 12:03:03 PM »

It's times like this that I'm (almost) sorry I don't have television service. Almost, but not quite.

smokey23 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2008, 01:45:29 PM »

I know where i'll be friday evenin, Nice find treize:aok

GooseAW · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2008, 02:23:13 PM »

NOW THAT IS KEEWWWLL!

Ongurth · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2008, 02:42:00 PM »

There will also be a new episode of Dogfights on the History channel tomorrow!

Denholm · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2008, 02:48:23 PM »

They need to get their History straight, that was no Enterprise!:D

Rebel · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2008, 02:48:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Ongurth
There will also be a new episode of Dogfights on the History channel tomorrow!

Yup.

Payday, too.

Summit Extra Pale Ale in my hand, my son on my lap, and History Channel on TV. Gonna be fun!

Nefarious · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2008, 03:27:11 PM »

Complied with FSO, Payday, and just the simple fact it is Friday to begin with may put it in running with the greatest Friday EVER!

Rash · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2008, 03:42:21 PM »

The founder of Enterprise car rental was a fighter pilot aboard the Enterprise during WW11

"Later, in 1969 Taylor renamed the company Enterprise Leasing Company in honor of the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier on which he served in World War II."

fuzeman · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2008, 04:00:33 PM »

Should be nice unless they do the usual histroy/amnesia channel thing and repeat everything over and over after a commercial break.

rstel01 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:06:53 PM »

One of the biggest tradigies was the scrapping of the Enterprise after the war.

She was slated to be saved as the first "Memorial" but it just never worked out. Halsey himself was at the head of the drive to save her.

Parts of her do still exist. She was broken up in Kearney NJ and the engineer (I dont recall his name) who executed her demise knew the signifcance of what he was doing, photographing the entire operation.

Her fan plate with the words E N T E R P R I S E was carefully cut off and is in the outfield of the little league field in River Vale NJ (Where the ship-breaker engineer was from).

Some of Her Portholes were installed on the Nuke Enterprise CVN-65. Her bell is at Anapolis and is wrung when Navy scores a TD. The football stadium at Anapolis has "Enterpise Tower" which was supposed to have her distinctive mast attached to it but, it was never installed.

Teak from her deck was also salved and given to members of the Enterprise association by the ship breaker (again I cant recall his name right now)

There is a really excellent book called Enterpise/Big-E CV6 that chronicles her history. I have it but, am on the road and dont have the authors name or ISBN since its home.