HISTORY
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.
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