USS REAGAN CVN-76
Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into
perspective� ENORMOUS!
See complete article:
http://www.nerepublican.com/index.php/2008/09/13/three-new-navy-ships/
>The memorial was just a wooden platform with rails around it when I
>visited it in 1957. Somewhere I have a photo or two of it. Search of
>the web turns up nothing of the old memorial. The Memorial as it is
>now was opened in 1962.
Here is a photo from 1952.
http://www.ussarizona.org/historical-gallery/picts/his-44a.jpg