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USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but did make three Pacific deployments serving in the Vietnam War .
CV-66 America: Kitty Hawk: 23 January 1965 9 August 1996 31 years, 199 days Sunk as target ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 [64] CV-67 John F. Kennedy: John F. Kennedy (lead ship) 7 September 1968 23 March 2007 38 years, 197 days Undergoing scrapping [65] [61] CVN-68 Nimitz: Nimitz (lead ship) 3 May 1975 — 49 years, 298 days
The Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers of the United States Navy were an incremental improvement on the Forrestal-class vessels. Three were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), and America (CV-66) (1965–1996), as well as the variant John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (1967–2007).
CVW-9 made seven subsequent Vietnam deployments aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS America (CVA-66) and USS Constellation (CV-64). Later, the Air Wing made peacetime cruises to the Western Pacific aboard USS Constellation, USS Ranger and USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) between June 1974 and June 1987.
USS America (CVA-66) 1 May 1965 – 1 July 1965 South Atlantic/Caribbean Shakedown cruise USS America (CVA-66) 29 November 1965 – 10 July 1966 Mediterranean U.S. Sixth Fleet: USS America (CVA-66) 10 January 1967 – 20 September 1967 Mediterranean: U.S. Sixth Fleet: USS America (CVA-66) 10 April 1968 – 16 December 1968 Yankee Station: Task ...
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67), the only ship of her class, was an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy. Considered a supercarrier , [ 2 ] she was a variant of the Kitty Hawk class , and the last conventionally-powered carrier built for the Navy, [ 6 ] as all carriers since have had nuclear propulsion .
A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4J-29-MC Phantom II (BuNo 153787) from Fighter Squadron 74 (VF-74) "Be-Devilers" lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS America (CVA-66). VF-74 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8) aboard the America for a deployment to Vietnam from 5 June 1972 to 24 March 1973.
He has deployed aboard USS America (CVA-66), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Ranger (CVA-61), USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), and USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). His command tours began in 1980 with the Light Attack Weapons School in Lemoore, California.