Key Points and Summary - USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In 2005, she undertook a final mission: ...

Busan, South Korea, Mar. 17, 2005: A sailor walks along the bow of the USS Kitty Hawk beside parked jets as the carrier leaves Busan, South Korea. The ship is heading off the coast of South Korea to ...

Hal Cleveland of Burleson has vivid memories of the night he lost six shipmates in a fire on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in December of 1973. Bradley Curby Courtesy As the great Marty Robbins once sang, ...

Somewhere off the coast of Vietnam, April, 1966: A member of the USS Kitty Hawk’s ordnance crew moves bombs to planeside off the coast of Vietnam in April, 1966. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...