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...
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the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport USS America (CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned...
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Gulf War order of battle: United States Navy (category Use American English from January 2024)
squadrons. USS America CV-66 USS Virginia CGN-38 USS Normandy CG-60 USS William V. Pratt DDG-44 USS Preble DDG-46 USS Halyburton FFG-40 USS America crossed...
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America. The CVA is an association of sailors who served aboard USS America (CV-66). The carrier was decommissioned in 1996 and scuttled in 2005 in the...
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decks of the carriers USS Forrestal (CV-59), USS America (CV-66), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS Saratoga (CV-60) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65). He...
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Leighton W. Smith Jr. (category American recipients of the Gallantry Cross (Vietnam))
included a deep draft vessel, the USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6), before taking command of the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) and subsequent command of Carrier...
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1986 United States bombing of Libya (section American)
mission success, because the eighteen A-6 available aboard USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and USS America (CV-66) could not carry enough bombs to simultaneously inflict...
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BALTOPS 85 and Ocean Safari. In 1986 the Pharris while assigned to the USS America (CV-66) battle group assisted in Operation El Dorado Canyon which commenced...
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went onto separate missions. The Callaghan took up "shotgun" for the USS America CV-66. Stopping in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Bahrain. Abu Dhabi, United Arab...
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USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3)...
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USS America (CV-66) carrier group. From 11 August 1993 to 5 February 1994 the ship deployed to the Mediterranean Sea, including a trip with the USS America...
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Arthur K. Cebrowski (category American people of Polish descent)
flagship USS America (CV-66) transited the Suez Canal on 29 October 1993. She was followed, on 1 November, by members of her battle group, USS Simpson (FFG-56)...
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Task Force 20 (category Use American English from July 2015)
CTG 20.2 for a Mediterranean deployment aboard USS America (CV-66) in April 1984. In late October 1983, USS Independence's battle group (Carrier Group Four)...
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Carrier Strike Group 6 (category Use American English from July 2015)
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)...
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VMAQ-2 (category Use American English from January 2024)
aboard USS Forrestal (CV-59) for a Mediterranean cruise that lasted 10 months with cross decking to USS Saratoga (CV-60) and USS America (CV-66). On 13...
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USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned eight days after the end...
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Group 2 - (Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, US) USS America CV-66 - Kitty Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier (America Sub-Class) - (Flagship) Carrier Air Wing 1 -...
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maritime traffic off the coast of Nicaragua (1983). She sailed with the USS America (CV-66) Battle Group in support of U. S. intervention forces in Grenada (1983)...
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Carrier Group 6, whose flagship at the time was aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66). On 10–11 January, Monterey was underway from Souda Bay, Crete, to...
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Grumman A-6 Intruder (category Use American English from October 2013)
operated them from the aircraft carriers USS Saratoga, USS John F. Kennedy, USS Midway, USS Ranger, USS America and USS Theodore Roosevelt, while U.S. Marine...
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Fleet consisting of three aircraft carriers - USS America (CV-66), USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and USS Saratoga (CV-60); five cruisers, six frigates, 12 destroyers...
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USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she...
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safety during transit. Ships moored at El Ballah during transit USS America (CV-66), an American aircraft carrier in the Suez Canal Container ship Hanjin Kaohsiung...
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USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Hancock was the fourth US Navy...
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1987 and completed the overhaul June 1988. Dale deployed with the USS America (CV-66) battle group to the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean on 11 May...
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USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship...
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Carrier Strike Group 5 (category Use American English from July 2015)
Force directed four carriers (USS Midway (CV-41), USS Ranger (CV-61), USS America (CV-66), and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CV-71)]) in the Arabian Sea/Persian...
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Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333(VMFA-333) off the deck of the USS America (CV-66), he and his RIO led a four-ship MigCap mission northeast of Hanoi...
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USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States...
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was the 14th of the 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States...
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