    
Title: USS America, June 1965 Description: USS America (CV-66; CVA-66) at sea off the U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during her shakedown training cruise; the 83,573-ton super carrier, commissioned on January 23, 1965, carried seventy-five aircraft and had a complement of 6,186 officers and enlisted men; the America was originally constructed as a nuclear carrier (CVN-66), but increasing costs, caused the cancellation of nuclear installations and the reordering of the ship as a conventionally fueled carrier; Date: June 1965 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, airplanes, aviation, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships, Vietnam War Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1980 x 1183 (2.34 MPixels) (1.67) Print Size: 16.8 x 10.0 cm; 6.6 x 3.9 inches File Size: 6.71 MB (7,036,710 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010846 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
