In January 2024, the USS Kitty Hawk, a 62,000-ton aircraft carrier, reached the end of her life. Once a home to 130,000 sailors over four decades, she now sat with her bow cut off, section by section ...
Hal Cleveland of Burleson has vivid memories of the night he lost six shipmates in a fire on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in December of 1973. As the great Marty Robbins once sang, some memories just won’t ...
Aboard USS Kitty Hawk, Mar. 20, 2003: Aviation ordnancemen load a precision-guided bomb on an F/A-18 Hornet on the USS Kitty Hawk. Carrier Air Wing 5 flew 35 daytime sorties and 56 nighttime sorties, ...
A flight deck worker rests on the nose of a fighter jet in between takeoffs Thursday, March 20, 2003 on the USS Kitty Hawk. Carrier Air Wing 5 flew 35 daytime sorties and 56 nighttime sorties, 42 of ...