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    USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned...
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    Design History. Naval Institute Press. p. 250. ISBN 0-87021-739-9. "CV-59 Forrestal Class". globalsecurity.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016...
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    On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire...
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  • conflict. Source: USS Independence CV-62 USS Jouett CG-29 USS Antietam CG-54 USS Goldborough DDG-20 USS Reasoner FF-1063 USS Brewton FF-1086 USS Barbey FF-1088...
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    The fifth USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the fourth and final member of the Forrestal class of...
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    James V. Forrestal (1892–1949), who understood the significance of the events and sought to act honorably amid treachery." USS Forrestal (CV-59) Frank Olson...
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    Wing Six embarked on USS Forrestal (CV-59) during Operation Earnest Will: Carrier Air Wing Six embarked on USS Forrestal (CV-59) during Operation Provide...
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    The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four...
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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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    USS Constellation (CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the "new constellation...
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    CVN (Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear Propulsion)). Beginning with the Forrestal class, (CV-59 to present) all carriers commissioned into service are classified...
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    Philip (1999). USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9). Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 1-56311-492-5. St. John, Philip (2000). USS Randolph (CV/CVA/CVS-15)...
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    Force School and was posted to the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Forrestal (CV-59) that deployed in 1989 in support of Operation Just Cause and to...
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    for unarrested landings and unassisted take-offs from the carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59), it remains the record holder for largest aircraft to operate from...
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    Vinson (CVN-70), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), USS Forrestal (CV-59), USS Independence (CV-62), USS Saratoga (CV-60), and USS Midway (CV-41), logging more...
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  • Archived March 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine for chronology. "USS Forrestal (CV-59)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. August 2, 2007. Archived...
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  • was used in the experimental submarine USS Albacore (AGSS-569) and the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59). Low-carbon STS became the forerunner of...
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    at the time of filming, so the scenes for the movie were shot aboard USS Ranger (CV-61) instead. The Enterprise is a setting used in the 1986 movie Top...
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  • similar formations. After a brief stop in Palma (24–28 August 1978), USS Forrestal (CV-59) left the Mediterranean en route to the Atlantic and the North and...
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    the decks of the aircraft carriers USS Forrestal (CV-59), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). He...
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    the Forrestal-class vessels. Three were built, all in the 1960s, Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (1961–2009), Constellation (CV-64) (1961–2003), and America (CV-66)...
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  • aboard the USS Forrestal (CV-59), and later as a counsel to the Supreme Allied Commander respecting the loss of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion in...
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    000 people homeless. Other ships involved included USS Forrestal (CV-59), USS Sampson (DDG-10), and USS Ponce (LPD-15). Springfield remained in the Mediterranean...
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    followed, at which time he served aboard aircraft carriers USS Forrestal (CV-59) and USS Independence (CV-62). In 1980, then-Captain Kelly attended the U.S. Army's...
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  • King Carrier Group 6 - (Naval Station Mayport, Florida, US) USS Forrestal CV-59 - Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier Carrier Air Wing 6 - Tail Code: AE VF-11...
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    selected as a chief petty officer. Upon completion of a tour aboard USS Forrestal (CV-59), which included an extended ten-month deployment in the Mediterranean...
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    Brownsville, Texas in August–September 2014 to be dismantled. The USS Forrestal (CV-59) shared the pier until June 2010.[citation needed] The departure...
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    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...
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    USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67), the only ship of her class, is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy. Considered a supercarrier...
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    behind desk Duncan returned to sea duty as executive officer of the USS Forrestal (CV-59) on its first Mediterranean cruise. On 1 April 1958 Duncan was promoted...
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