Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Flight Deck, a documentary on the hazardous job of the flight-deck crew aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt...
With Souvanna's agreement, the U.S. meanwhile announced that it would continue to fly reconnaissance missions when necessary for Kong Le's army, and would retaliate against any guns that fire at its planes. To that end, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation was cruising in the South China Sea off South Viet Nam, some 250 miles from the Plain of Jars. The question that remained in everyone's mind was whether the U.S. would intervene with airpower only when provoked, or whether the jet strikes presaged a willingness to carry the air war in Laos further...
Hitting the Road. The recon sweeps were made by Navy jets from the U.S. 7th Fleet aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, lying off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Prime target for the planes high-speed, still-photo lenses was Route 7, a ribbon of dirt snaking out of Communist North Viet Nam into Laos. Known by Laotians as Thang Nay, or the Big Road, Route 7 has long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos...
...seven squadrons of obsolete Canberra bombers and F-86 fighters will be replaced with French Mirage 111-0 fighters. Menzies has also placed orders for three U.S. guided-missile destroyers and four British Oberon-class submarines to bolster Australia's tiny fleet, consisting of a single aircraft carrier (damaged in a collision last Feb. 10), three destroyers and a handful of frigates and mine sweepers...
...agreed to dismantle the station, then stood by quietly as 5,000 Zanzibaris-egged on by Russian sailors-coursed through the capital carrying signs that read, "Go Home Yank." But at the same time, a U.S. Navy task force, known as the "Concord Squadron" and headed by the attack carrier Bon Homme Richard, steamed into the Indian Ocean-merely on a good-will mission, the Pentagon pointed out. Still, all that heavy-caliber good will might have a sobering effect on the region...