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TTi fflWHWWttWfr ! ' . — ».i».vi- ' Vi.v »v v «ivj.!f|iy • WWIj,IIIIIIIIIIIIIW!W i , , ■- , ' After more than 200 years, the name and ship were finally united in defense of the country whose name she so proudly bears. Her name was the personal choice of the late President John R Kennedy. She is conventionally powered, but at one point, while still on the drawing boards, AMERICA was designated to be nuclear powered. Plans were changed before the keel was laid, but some diagrams and component blueprints still bear the name GSS AMERICA (CVAN-66). A modified FORRESTAL class carrier, her major distinctions being elevator configuration and a modernized island structure. AMERICA is an enormous ship. For instance if the Eiffel Tower was laid on her flight deck, the Paris landmark would overhang a mere 5 feet. The carrier ' s length is twice the height of the Washington Monument and is only 202.5 feet shorter in length than the stupendous Empire State Building. The keel was laid on 9 January 1961 as Hull 561 in Shipway 10 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Three years later, Mrs. Catherine T McDonald, wife of the Chief of Naval Operations, christened AMERICA. After sea trials and acceptance trials, AMERICA was commissioned on 23 January 1965. Over six thousand spectators crowded the ship ' s hangar deck to view the commissioning and hear addresses by Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Secretary of the Navy, Paul H. Nitze, and the Governor of Virginia, A. S. Harrison. Top left: under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1 July 1961. Above and opposite top left: flight deck, island and mast. Right: Mrs. David L. McDonald launches America, February 1964. Opposite middle: The newly commissioned AMERICA. Opposite bottom: Preliminary sea trials, December 1964.
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In 1966 AMERICA ' S Executive Officer, CDR. Kenneth B. Austin, piloted an A-4 skyhawk while en route to Guantan- oma Bay, Cuba for the first recorded catapult launch and arrested recovery on board during initial training. A short time later, she departed on her first deployment to join the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and enjoyed a most suc- cessful cruise. Highpoints of numerous port visits included various ports within Italy and an introduction to Pope Paul VI by the Commanding Officer and staff of the (JSS AMER- ICA. 10
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