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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 .
USS Abraham Lincoln, the destroyer USS Merrill (DD-976) and at least two other ships, along with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, were assisting in the search. A Navy helicopter crew flying in the area and sailors from the Merrill reported a ball of fire and loud explosion about 0230 PST, said Senior Chief Petty Officer Bob Howard, a Navy ...
The flagship USS America (CV-66) transited the Suez on 29 October 1993. She was followed, on 1 November, by members of her battle group, USS Simpson (FFG-56) and the replenished oiler USS Savannah (AOR-4). The transit took America over 2,500 miles in a week.
On 11 September 1972, while piloting his F-4J of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333 off the deck of the USS America (CV-66), he and his RIO led a four-ship MigCap mission northeast of Hanoi and successfully shot down a MiG-21 and damaged a second MiG.
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).
ISL has also dismantled the former USS Ranger (CV-61), which arrived here in July 2015, and the former USS Independence (CV-62), which came in June 2017. ISL received the former USS Kitty Hawk (CV ...
USS America (CV-66) 15 April 1976 – 25 October 1976 Mediterranean U.S. Sixth Fleet: USS America (CV-66) 10 June 1977 – 19 July 1977 South Atlantic Task Group 20.4: USS America (CV-66) 25 September 1977 – 25 April 1978 Mediterranean U.S. Sixth Fleet: USS Independence (CV-62) 28 June 1979 – 14 December 1979 Mediterranean U.S. Sixth Fleet
CV-5 Yorktown: Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 250 days Sunk in the Battle of Midway in 1942 [19] CV-6 Enterprise: Yorktown: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 8 years, 281 days Scrapped in 1960 [20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 143 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 ...