United States Navy Club

Precisely at 2 bells, evening watch, 18 June 1938, at a Navy Veterans Reunion in Quincy, Illinois; a new and powerful organization, The Navy Club of the United States of America, was launched. At that hour, a Constitution and By-Laws was adopted to govern this unique and colorful group, speaking the language of the men who go down to the sea in ships.

The original organization committee drew up a broad administrative charter that envisioned a new concept in collectively bringing together the many private Navy Clubs and Navy Veterans Organizations, that had sprung up across the country, and by so doing, give each member and prospective member, a powerful voice, as a Nationally Recognized Organization.

With the Navy men and women of the United States formed together in one great powerful service organization, there should come a more extensive and widespread observance of NAVY DAY, a more searching survey of all legislation that concerns a strong United States Navy and National Defense, a guarantee that our Navy will be kept at such strength that there will be no more "Pearl Harbors", a more powerful influence on American thinking of the importance of a first class Navy, a better and more informed medium through which the Navy Department can convey its problems to the American Citizen, and to join together all sailors, marines and coast guard personnel into a closer comradeship.