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04013911 |
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Launch Booklet, 09 AUG 1975 |
Robert M. Cieri |
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August 1975, launch ceremony at Newport News |
USN |
04013910 |
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Commissioning Booklet, 10 SEP 1977 |
Tom Langford |
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Starboard bow view, (Poor) |
USN |
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(Very small) Port bow view. |
USN |
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Starboard bow view, (poor) |
USN |
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80k |
Two views of the Virginia class nuclear powered cruiser.
White marking on the bow is a target for underway replenishment helicopters.
Equipped with a helicopter pad aft, there is also a hanger in the fantail,
reminiscent of her WW2 predecessors. The door/elevator reportedly leaked
badly and were not liked by her crews. |
USN |
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67k |
See above. |
USN |
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113k |
Undated starboard bow view |
Newport News Shipbuilding |
04013909 |
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Undated port side view.
U.S. Navy Photo
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Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr |
04014108 |
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Undated port side photo of USS
Arkansas (CGN 41), USS Mississippi
(CGN 40), and USS Texas (CGN 39) (bottom to top). |
Robert Hirsh |
04013919 |
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Port bow view, date and location unknown.
U.S. Navy photo.
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David Buell |
04013915 |
342k |
Port quarter view while underway in the Chesapeake Bay,
6 JUL 1977. |
Robert M. Cieri |
04013913 |
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Welcome Aboard booklet, circa 1979 |
Robert M. Cieri |
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50k |
Starboard side view from USS
California (CGN-36) while underway in the Indian Ocean Jan 1980. |
Michael Boyd |
04013812 |
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An aerial starboard bow view of six nuclear-powered guided missile
cruisers underway in formation during exercise READEX 1-81. The ships
are, from left to right: USS TEXAS (CGN-39),
USS MISSISSIPPI (CGN-40), USS
CALIFORNIA (CGN-36), USS SOUTH
CAROLINA (CGN-37), USS
VIRGINIA (CGN-38) and USS ARKANSAS
(CGN-41). Photo taken 26 February 1981 by PH1 Anthony Alleyne.
DOD Photo #DN-SC-87-08333
|
Steve Dietrich |
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Aerial stern view of (left to right) the nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz (CVN-68), the nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers USS
Mississippi (CGN-40) and USS Texas
(CGN-39), and the guided missile cruiser USS
Biddle (CG-34), underway in the Mediterranean Sea, August 1981.
On August 19, 1981 two F-14A Tomcats from VF-41 "Black Aces,"
based on Nimitz, used Sidewinder missiles to shoot down two Lybian,
Soviet-built SU-22 Fitters over the Gulf of Sidra, after one of the
Lybian jets fired an Atoll heat-seeking missile. This incident marked
the first Navy air combat confrontation since the Vietnam War and the
first ever for the F-14A Tomcat.
US Navy photo by PH3 Cruz (DVIC id.: DNSC8501964).
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Defense Visual Information Center |
04013917 |
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Ship's PAO handout. Note the Tomahawk Armored Box Launchers
on the fantail which indicate that this drawing was made after the 1987
overhaul. |
Robert M. Cieri |
04013916 |
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Starboard quarter view while underway in the Gulf of Alaska,
1987 |
Robert M. Cieri |
04012912 |
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Welcome Aboard booklet, circa 1988 |
Robert M. Cieri |
04013918 |
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Moored in Pearl Harbor, July 1988. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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image contributed by Mike Smolinski 
