America (CV 66) - Naval Cruise Book

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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 MORNING! It ' s July 11, 1968 The America is: On Yankee Station The DAILY EAGLE 1. • n.w.p.p.r printed each day at aee by the USS AMERICA commended by Capl. P. C. Turner, USN. Tha DAILY EAGLE la printed on government equipment ualng nonappropriated ftmda and at no coat to the GovanuD.nl In accordance with NAVEXOS P-35. True newe haa bean compiled by the Communication. Department and edited by the Public Affaire Office. All commenta and newe etorlae ehouid be aant to the Public Affaire Office. VF 33 F4i 1st to Make MIG Kill From America USS AMERICA (CVA-66), July 10--A Mig 21 was shot down today by an F-ljJ Phantom from Fighter Squadron 33 a The Mig was downed by Lt. Roy Cash Jr., tercept officer, Lt. (jg) Joseph E. Kain Jr During an interview ov°r T , f. (jg) Joseph E. Kair. Jr. (left.) - r : I, ' . Roy Cash Jr. talk about their ill, (photo by SN Harvey A. Cox Jr. ■ ' ■:) ' 66 Pilots Destroy 27 Barges by J03 James C. Harding USNR USS AMKKICA (CVA-66), July 8--P lanes from the carrier America today destroyed a North Vietnamese ammunition dump, a petroleum cache and 27 bar es along sev- eral major waterways which aire arteries for waterborne supply craft moving south. F-W Phantoms from Fighter Squadron 102 attacked a barge in a river nine statute miles north of Vinh. (See AMSiUCA IK 71 »T! IK, pa--:e ■ ' ■ ) 28, of Memphis, Tenn. and his radar in- . , 23, of Haver town, Pa. The engagement 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- burners. The Phantom climbed away frctn the deck at a US degree angle and made a series of victory rolls. After the plane landed the crew was greeted by a crowd of handshaking and back-slapping well wishers. The thur.be up sign of a job well done was a common sign of recognition of the pilots a- chievemente Safety Shapes U.S. Space Race Policy MONTREAL, July 10 (UPI)— The United States is prepared to let Russia win the manned space race to the moon rather than take a chance on safety, a top of- ficial of the U.S. Manned Space Program said Tuesday. Dr. George E. Mueller, Director of the Gemini and Apollo Manned Space Flight Programs, said the Russians were pouring money into their program while NASA has been forced to cut its budget by about one-third. He said that while NASA had no inside information about how the Russians were making out and he did not know whether they could make a manned landing on the mood before the end of next year, we are not rushing our ma-—- ' o n » f H o+it. (See U.S. SPACE, page Above: Ship ' s newspaper, Daily Eagle . . . features VF-33 Mig kill. Left: Loading ordnance off the coast of Vietnam, 1968. 17

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Left: AMERICA ' S first Battle E is displayed by Captain D. D. ENGEN, USN, Commanding Officer, April 1967. Below: Crossing Equator, 1968. Middle and Bottom: CJ2R high altitude reconnaissance aircraft . . . traps aboard AMERICA during guarded secret conditions, November 1969. 16

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- Above: AMERICA on Yankee Station, 1968. Right: AMERICA greets Sydney, Australia, 1968. Opposite Top: AMERICA enters harbor at Sydney, Australia, November 1970. Opposite bottom left and right: T-28 makes last carrier landing, October 1979. I I 18