'When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.' (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)// Sailors begin work to spread the awning on the forecastle of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-39). At the time, in late 1937, she was the Combined Flee
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