April 5, 2024
USS America
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS AMERICA (CVA-CV-66). Details the history of the U.S. Navy super carrier USS America (CVA/CV-66) including her service in conflicts with Libya, Vietnam, Iraq, and Bosnia. Extra large commemorative edition This exciting new book details the history of the U.S. Navy carrier USS America (CVA/CV-66), and other ships bearing the name "America," with individual biographies, sea stories and photographs submitted by members of the USS America Carrier Veterans Association. The USS America, which is more than 1,000 feet long and displaces about 80,000 tons, exceeds the size of the Japanese World War II battleships Yamato and Musashi, and the carrier Shinano, which all displaced close to 70,000 tons. The America was the third carrier of the non-nuclear Kitty Hawk class, and the first to be retired, a victim of post-Cold War budget cuts after 31 years at sea. It launched warplanes during the Vietnam War, the 1986 conflict with Libya, the first Gulf War, and over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990. For five line periods consisting of 100 days on "Yankee Station" off the coast of Vietnam, USS America's aircraft pounded at roads and waterways, trucks and waterborne logistic craft (WBLC), hammered at petroleum storage areas and truck parks in an attempt to impede the flow of men and war materials to the south. She lost a pilot
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