Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This great ship will rule for a long, long time as 'Queen of the Seas.' " With these words, Navy Secretary John B. Connally last week commissioned the CVA (N) 65, U.S.S. Enterprise, the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the mightiest ship ever...
...hefty Enterprise handles like a PT boat. In its first trials last month, it surged through the Atlantic at speeds of more than 35 knots, accelerated from a standstill to top speed so rapidly that accompanying destroyers were left wallowing far behind. Its eight nuclear reactors will drive the carrier more than 140,000 miles at full power, more than 400,000 miles at high cruising speed (15-20 knots) without refueling...
Appropriately, the Enterprise packs the biggest punch of any aircraft carrier in history: three squadrons of 680-m.p.h. Douglas A4D attack bombers that can carry H-bombs 1,000 miles; one squadron of 1,000-m.p.h. Chance Vought F8U interceptors; one squadron of North American A3J all-weather attack bombers; one squadron of the versatile, all-weather McDonnell F4H Phantom II, which last week set a new world's speed record for jet flight of 1,600 m.p.h. To launch one of its 100 planes every 15 seconds, the Enterprise will use four steam-operated catapults that...
...Sitzkrieg at Checkpoint Charlie still performed a function: in a remarkable way it showed the world how Berlin really felt. One day last week, an elderly woman in a tattered grey coat faced a G.I. bundled on his armored personnel carrier, held out three fresh pink carnations, murmured in German, "I brought you some different colors today; God bless you!" Understanding the sentiment if not the words, the young soldier accepted the flowers with a grin, muttered "Danke schön" proudly stuffed them in the perforated barrel cooler of his 20-mm. cannon. Farther up the street a pack...
...would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States has today hundreds of intercontinental bombers capable of reaching the Soviet Union, including 600 heavy bombers and many more medium bombers equally capable of intercontinental operations because of our highly developed in-flight refueling techniques. Our carrier strike forces and land-based theater forces could deliver additional hundreds of megatons. The number of our nuclear delivery vehicles, tactical as well as strategic, is in the tens of thousands; and of course, we have more than one warhead for each vehicle...