Название: USS America CVA-66, CV-66

Автор(ы): Bert Kinzey

Издательство: Kalmbach Books / Airlife Publishing

Серия: Detail & Scale 34

Год: 1989

ISBN: 0-8306-0203-8

Страниц: 76

Язык: English

Формат: PDF

Размер: 75 MB

The USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of four Kitty Hawk-class super carriers 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. She also served in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

America held the distinctions of being the last U.S. supercarrier built not named after a person, and being the first large aircraft carrier since Operation Crossroads in 1946 to be expended in weapons tests. In 2005, she was scuttled southeast of Cape Hatteras, after four weeks of tests, despite a large protest of former crew-members who wanted to see her instituted as a memorial museum. She was the largest warship ever to be sunk.

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