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USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60) was the second of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War .
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) with her crew manning the rail on the flight deck, as she arrives in Barcelona, Spain, 12 February 1965. Saratoga, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 28 November 1964 to 12 July 1965.
An A3D-2 from VAH-9 suffers a nose wheel collapse while landing on USS Saratoga, c. 1959. Prior to the initial operational capability of the U.S. Navy's Polaris-armed Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines, the A-3 was the Navy's critical element in the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
In 1967 VA-176 was back in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Saratoga as part of CVW-3. This was the last cruise with the Douglas A-1H Skyraider, as the squadron converted to the Grumman A-6A Intruder all-weather attack plane. From its first deployment with the Intruder in 1970 to the last in 1991, VA-176 was assigned to CVW-6.
The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I , but under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, all U.S. battleship and ...
I was on the Saratoga with VF-103 on work-ups before Desert Shield/Storm and through that war. The nicknames I hears were "Sorry Sara" and "Suckin 60 From Dixie". You also missed the fact that VF-103 had the only F14 Tomcat ever shot down at that point (Aircraft 207) and that the Pilot (Lt. Jones) was rescued and the NFO (Lt. Slade) was ...
John Howard Cassady (April 3, 1896 – January 25, 1969) was an admiral in the United States Navy.He was Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from 1954 to 1956.
View of the flight deck of USS Nimitz after the crash of the EA-6B. 26 May Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 159910, of VMAQ-2 Detachment Y, crash landed on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, off the Florida coast, [43] killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others (some reports say 42, some 48). The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last ...