USS America (CV-66)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:ship
gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Meritorious_Unit_Commendation
gptkb:Battle_Efficiency_Award
gptkb:Republic_of_Vietnam_Campaign_Medal
gptkb:Vietnam_Service_Medal
gptkb:Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Kuwait)
gptkb:Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Saudi_Arabia)
gptkb:Sea_Service_Deployment_Ribbon
gptkb:Navy_Unit_Commendation
gptkb:Armed_Forces_Expeditionary_Medal
gptkb:Southwest_Asia_Service_Medal
gptkbp:builder gptkb:Newport_News_Shipbuilding
gptkbp:callsign Navy America
gptkbp:commissioned 23 January 1965
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:crewComplement over 5,000 (including air wing)
gptkbp:decommissioned 9 August 1996
gptkbp:displacement over 80,000 tons (full load)
gptkbp:fate sunk as a target
gptkbp:homeport gptkb:Norfolk,_Virginia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USS America (CV-66)
gptkbp:hullNumber gptkb:CV-66
gptkbp:laidDown 9 January 1961
gptkbp:launched 1 February 1964
gptkbp:length 1,048 feet
gptkbp:locationSunk Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Carolina
gptkbp:motto gptkb:Ready_on_Arrival
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:United_States_of_America
gptkbp:nickname gptkb:The_Big_A
gptkbp:notableEvent first large aircraft carrier sunk in a test of survivability
gptkbp:operator gptkb:United_States_Navy
gptkbp:participatedIn gptkb:Vietnam_War
Operation Desert Storm
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)
gptkbp:propulsion conventional steam turbines
gptkbp:successor gptkb:USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CV-67)
gptkbp:sunkBy 14 May 2005
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkb:Libya_bombing_(1986)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5