Word: flattopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the 85,350-ton flattop was christened in 1960, skeptics questioned whether the Enterprise's atomic propulsion could justify the added cost ($150 million). Last week, after 4½ months of combat duty off Viet Nam, the Big E-along with the only other nuclear vessel in the war, the destroyer Bainbridge-won straight A's from the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because...
...Treatment. A Texas-born Annapolis graduate (class of '28), Raborn started out in World War II as an aviator, later became executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn got the deck patched up in four hours - in time to permit the carrier's planes to land safely from a mission. He won a Silver Star for his effort...
...crewmen, none was seriously hurt. A World War II baby flattop with seven Nazi U-boats to its credit, the New Orleans-based Card had arrived in Saigon with a load of new helicopters, had been scheduled to sail in five hours with a return cargo of bullet-riddled, scrapped "banana" transport choppers. Because of the Card's deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only...
Poor combat-fatigued 20th Century-Fox may lose The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The studio needs an obsolete cruiser, an obsolete flattop and two obsolete submarines with deck guns. The Pentagon has refused to help with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Follow the Boys, even though M-G-M agreed to take out a scene that shows an admiral getting seasick. The Pentagon is, by and large, against comedies...
...will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop and her accompanying destroyers will be on station in the South Atlantic with an important mission: watching for Russian submarines...