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Farewell to USS Nimitz, the Navy carrier that defined an era
Fifty years is an unusually long operational life for any machine, let alone a nuclear-powered airfield at sea. That is what makes the departure of USS Nimitz from the fleet more than a ceremonial ...
The best argument that USS Nimitz should be retired is not that the ship is old and tired; it is that the sea does not anymore reward the type of predictable concentration that the ship was designed ...
BREMERTON, Wash. — The USS Nimitz sits in Sinclair Inlet, west of Seattle, its flight deck empty of aircraft and its hull showing scrapes and rust from its last official deployment across the Pacific ...
Como ocurre con muchas historias de la Armada, los detalles son objeto de debate. Pero Jere Cordell, de San Diego, jura que el imponente portaaviones USS Nimitz ganó una carrera improvisada contra ...
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