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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
The history of USS America USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers designed for the Navy in the 1960’s. Built to be more capable than their Forrestal-class ...
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'4 Weeks of Explosions': The Navy Failed to Sink Their Own Aircraft Carrier
It took four weeks and multiple methods of attack to finally send the aging Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, USS America (CV-66) 17,000 feet under the Atlantic Ocean. Back in 2005, the United States ...