In January 2024, the USS Kitty Hawk, a 62,000-ton aircraft carrier, reached the end of her life. Once a home to 130,000 sailors over four decades, she now sat with her bow cut off, section by section ...
T he news that the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy were each sold for one cent felt like an insult to many veterans and ship lovers. These were once flagships and icons of ...
Hal Cleveland of Burleson has vivid memories of the night he lost six shipmates in a fire on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in December of 1973. Bradley Curby Courtesy As the great Marty Robbins once sang, ...