In a 2005 SINKEX, the U.S. Navy subjected the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) to four weeks of “brutal ...
T he news that the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy were each sold for one cent felt like an insult to many veterans and ship lovers. These were once flagships and icons of ...
Inspired by his father, a World War II pilot, Doug Lawson joined the Navy Reserve during the Vietnam War era and was sent ...
Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk, ...
John Snively was a noncombatant air intelligence officer on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in 1969 during the Vietnam War. At the same time, Snively's brother had volunteered for the Marines, and ...