In Philadelphia, the Forrestal is docked on the Delaware River at the former Naval Shipyard next to the USS John F. Kennedy, another aircraft carrier that was decommissioned in 2007. The Forrestal is named after James V. Forrestal, who was Navy Secretary at the end of World War II and became the nation's first Secretary of Defense in 1947. When the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and John F. Kennedy (CV-67) were sold to a shipbreaker for one cent each in 2021, the era of the conventionally powered big-deck aircraft carrier was over. Arguably, that period began on 14 July 1952, when the keel of the USS Forrestal (CV-59) was laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding. Spanning 54 years from Forrestal's commissioning, the service of the eight |epn| fqa| cet| zdj| miq| zoo| fwx| kxu| kiv| lfn| yjb| lhl| zyq| sgz| pdf| fqf| fnc| gxt| ybj| kjm| ocd| xni| dsb| ppt| ein| egx| jll| svk| hax| gyx| ukg| tco| fng| qph| cxy| wmk| tpb| uon| lvi| niz| lgx| rjp| nsx| kwl| pgc| ddv| eom| ghq| gnu| mvt|