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Opposite Page: Ship ' s newspaper, Daily Eagle . . . features VF-33 MiG kill. Opposite page (Left): Crossing Equator. 1968. Opposite page (Right): Loading ordance off the coast of Vietnam. 1968. Left: AMERICA greets Sidney. Australia. 1968. Below: AMERICA on Yankee station, 1968. 19
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USS AMERICA (CVA-66) Weather Summary: Partly cloudy, winds south at 18 knots, max temp. 87, seas from the south. GOOD MORNINGI It ' s July 11, 1968 The America is: On Yankee Station The DAILY EAGLE la • newspaper printed each day at sea by tne USS AMERICA, commanded by Capt. F. C. Turner. USN. The DAILY EAGLE :■ printed oo (ovemment equipment ualng nonappropriated funds and at no coat to the Government In K:cordance with NAVEXOS P 35. Thle newa has been compiled by the Communications Department and edited by the Public Affairs Office. All comments and news stories should ba sent to the Public Affairs Office. VF-33 F41 1st to Make MIG Kill From America USS AMERICA (CVA-66), July 10— A Mig 21 was shot down today by an F-I4J Phantom ft-om Fighter Squadron 33. The Mig was downed by Lt, Roy Cash Jr., 28, of Memphis, Tenn, and his radar in- tercept officer, Lt. (jg) Joseph E. Kain Jr., 23, of Havertown, Pa. The enga gement took place 17 miles northwest of Vinh. The scene on the flight deck was one of jubilation when Phantom 212 made a low pass over the deck and cut in his after- burnersa The Phantom climbed away frcrni the deck at a US degree angle and made a series of victory i jlls. After the plane landed the crew was greeted by a crowd of handshaking and back-slapping well wisher.s. The thiip-ibs up sign of a job well done was a common sign of recognition of the pilots a- amp, long arte i- ' ig 102 attacked a barge in a river nine statute miles north of Vinh. (Gee AME.aCA IK VIiTI. ' ui, page 6) ; mood before the and of next year, we are not rushing our manned space flight (See U.S. SP.ICE, page 6) 18
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Top (Left Right): T-28 makes last carrier landing, October. 1979. Bottom: An AMERICA first . . . Capt. and Mrs. T. W. Kaugher. USMC. July. 1969. 20
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