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Named for: Kitty Hawk, N.C., and for Kill Devil Hill, the site approximately four miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk, where Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine on 17 December 1903.
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15 Jun 1961: Responding to ongoing media allegations of construction problems associated with purportedly inferior workmanship performed by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally, Jr., admitted: "A large number of discrepancies and deficiencies have shown up in the Kitty Hawk." Adding that all new ships can expect defects, Connally nonetheless indicated that further investigation was required.
17 Jul 1961: A Grumman C-1A Trader (designated a TF-1, however, on 18 September 1962, when the Department of Defense issued a joint regulation establishing a uniform system of designating military aircraft. For simplicity, all aircraft references hereinafter employ that system), CDR J.M. Thomas and LCDR P.A. Peck, completed the first [at sea aircraft] launch and recovery at 1144.
21 Dec 1961: The Navy and New York Shipbuilding Corp. reached a final contract price for the ship of approximately $178 million. This figure reflected the "final settlement of all claims and counterclaims pertaining to Kitty Hawk," including allegations of cost overruns, delays, and purportedly inferior workmanship performed by that company.
13 Oct 1962: Kitty Hawk became Seventh Fleet flagship for the day while hosting the change of command as VADM Thomas H. Moorer relieved ADM William A. Schoech as Commander, Seventh Fleet.
6-7 June 1963: President John F. Kennedy and an entourage that included the CNO and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, together with Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth, visited Kitty Hawk overnight, viewing a First Fleet weapons demonstration. The crew commemorated the occasion by referring to the ship as the "Floating White House." Operating with the carrier were 31 other vessels; including anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier Bennington (CVS-20), amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima (LPH-2), heavy cruiser Helena (CA-75), Topeka, and amphibious force flagship Eldorado (AGC-11). Referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis the previous autumn, the President used the occasion to note: "Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security." Writing to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek of Taiwan, the President remarked that seeing Kitty Hawk and her crew at sea gives real meaning to the phrase, "Our first Line of Defense..." An engraved steel plaque, laid in her flight deck, commemorated the Chief Executive's visit.
2-4 Dec 1963: Kitty Hawk participated in Big Dipper, an amphibious exercise with the Taiwanese demonstrating how "American forces can answer the call from a besieged ally." Her aircraft provided close air support and reconnaissance for assault troops.
6 Dec 1963: LT George C. Creighton, III, VA-113, became Kitty Hawk's first jet double-centurion by completing his 200th arrested landing on board. LTs Marvin I. Clark and Thomas C. Kennedy of the same flight landed within seconds of LT Creighton, also qualifying as double-centurions.
21 Apr 1964: Following an abortive rightist coup against the Laotian government on 19 April, communist Pathet Lao guerillas threatened that regime. Kitty Hawk steamed to the South China Sea to provide a stabilizing presence in the region. On 18 May, her aircraft began flying low-level aerial reconnaissance missions over Laos, determining that the communists were infiltrating into the area from North Vietnam, part of the system eventually known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Three days later, the Seventh Fleet initiated a standing carrier presence at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin (established as the primary operations area from which carriers would launch strikes against North Vietnam).
Jul 1965: A sequence from the Walt Disney motion picture Lt. Robin Carusoe, USN was filmed on board over a five-day period. Two chimpanzees were the highlight to the crew among the embarked guests. On 25 June 1966, Kitty Hawk hosted the world premier of the movie within Hanger Bay No. 1, converted into a "gala" 1,804-seat theater, as the ship lay moored to Pier Mike, November, NAS North Island. Simultaneously, the motion picture was shown on board Constellation, operating off Vietnam, allowing the film to honor those serving by being released concurrently on ships moored and underway.
6 Dec 1965: During the morning a flash fire erupted in No. 3 Main Machinery Room, during air operations on Yankee Station. Two Sailors, FA William D. "Billy" Heeper and FN Charles A. Philhewer, died, and 29 suffered injuries, with two men, FA Henry H. Powell and Grumman Aircraft Co. representative Edward B. Scherer, being injured seriously in the "smoke-clogged fire below decks." The crew regained control of the space, however, and flight operations continued without interruption.
Jan-Mar 1966: "Frequent periods of low ceiling in the I Corps area" and "non-availability of Forward Air Controllers" handicapped operations following the stand down observed due to the Tet (Vietnamese lunar holiday) truce.
3 Feb 1966: "Bad weather" reduced aerial operations until this date, when the elements "opened for a few hours." Aircrew took advantage of that window of opportunity and flew 170 sorties, 49 of them attack.
Mar 1966: Flying "just off the deck" through heavy rain while encountering poor visibility, A-1Hs from VA-115 "tore into" Cap Chao radar site, eight miles southwest of Than Hoa, with air-to-ground rockets.
14 Mar 1966: SAR helo crews conducted the "daring rescue" of two USAF aircrewmen after their aircraft was shot down, both being extricated from their predicament within range of enemy shore batteries.
17 Apr 1966: Aircraft dropped the second and third spans of the five span steel Hai Duong Railroad and Highway Bridge, about 30 nautical miles east of Hanoi, into the channel of the Song Thai Binh, also "cratering" the eastern bridge abutment and approaches. Flak suppressing aircraft "silenced" one 37 mm and six automatic weapons sites with multiple rocket hits. This was considered a major success in the war on North Vietnamese lines of communication.
18 Apr 1966: Intelligence revealed that the North Vietnamese were repairing the damage at Uong Bi Thermal Power Plant, and a pair of A-6As, VA-85, executed a surprise midnight attack against the factory. Making radar system deliveries, the Intruder crews placed 26,000 pounds of ordnance on target, "sending showers of sparks and raging fires leaping into the air."
19 Apr 1966: Aircraft hit the Cam Pha Port Facility, North Vietnam. The "precipitous" departure of a Polish merchantman, and subsequent protests from the Polish government, indicated the strike's "inhibiting effect" on East Bloc logistical support for the North Vietnamese. That same day, an RA-5C, LCDR Raymond C. Vehorn and LT(JG) John H. Hurlburt, RVAH-13, accomplished the 50,000th arrested landing on board.
10-11 Mar 1967: Aircrew "hammered" a thermal power plant, ship repair facility and military buildings, Hon Gai, 25 miles east of Haiphong. "As the strike aircraft approached their roll-in point," remarked CDR Marion L. "Lee" Minnis, CO, VA-112, "I fired my first Bullpup for a direct hit on the flak site I was to cover. It will be a while before those guns fire again." The pilots followed the strike by dropping or damaging "Numerous bridges" at Ninh Binh the next day.
26 Apr 1967: While flying as part of the crew of an SH-3A, HS-2, during the rescue of a pilot shot down over North Vietnam, LT(JG) Thomas E. Pettis, spotted the man in the water, both directing the helo to the victim and directing the rescue combat air patrol aircraft, while returning the enemy's fire with his own automatic weapons. Pettis received the DFC for his extraordinary efforts during the rescue.
10 May 1967: ADM Roy L. Johnson, CINCPAC, recommended to Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze that Kitty Hawk, CVW-11 and Commander, Carrier Division (COMCARDIV)-5 be awarded the Navy Unit Commendation, emphasizing the ship's "outstanding support" and her "responsiveness-evidenced" by launching 4,544 combat sorties during the 4 December 1966-28 April 1967 period. Aircrew "repeatedly encountered intense AAA fire, enemy fighters and surface-to-air missiles-during many difficult months of combat operations in extremely poor weather," in particular, noting the strikes against the "heavily defended Haiphong area."
18-19 Dec 1967: A serious Class A and C fire broke out in compartment 02-177-6-V, utilized for tire storage, spreading smoke and heat throughout the 02 and 03 levels, while Kitty Hawk lay moored at Subic Bay. "Medical facilities were taxed to the utmost during the first six hours," the crew fighting the blaze for nine hours, though securing the next afternoon. Some 125 Sailors sustained injuries due to smoke inhalation, none seriously. All returned to duty.
23 Dec 1967-21 Feb 1968: CVW-11 flew 5,406 combat sorties and "ranged the length of North Vietnam," principally striking enemy power plants, rail yards, and lines of communication. Major targets attacked included both Vinh and Kien An Airfields, along with Long Vi thermal and Ban Thack hydro power plants, as well as the Hanoi port facility and communications center.
13 Jan 1968: Undeterred by heavy monsoon rain, A-6s struck an enemy truck convoy utilizing the inclement weather to infiltrate supplies through the North Vietnamese lower "Panhandle," as well as hitting the Duc Vong cave storage area 11 miles northeast of Vinh. "The visibility was almost zero," commented LCDR Anthony C. "Tony" Casciarto, one of the bombardier-navigators on the mission, "which made the weather perfect for our A-6s."
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