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Historical overview
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USS Saratoga - CV3
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1925
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the CV-3 became the united states' first aircraft carrier
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1927
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USS Saratoga CV-3 is first commissioned
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1941
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CV-3 heads for the Pacific Ops theatre
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After WWII
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CV-3 was sunk at "Bikini Lagoon" during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb testing in 1946.
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CVA-60 / CV-60
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1955, Oct
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USS Saratoga is anew launched!
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1956
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commissioned
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1958
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Mediterranean - Jordanian crisis
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1962
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patrolling the waters off Guantanamo bay during the Cuban missile crisis
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1967
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the famous Six Day war : stationed off the coast of Lebanon
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1970
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returned to the coast of Lebanon.
president Nixon was aboard when word came of the death of Gamal Abdul Nasser
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1972, Apr
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she takes part in the Vietnam War cruise
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1972, Jul
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designated CV-60 : the USS Saratoga is now an all-purpose carrier,
she is the first to be named so!
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1985
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the Saratoga played a role in the rescue of the hijacked luxury liner Achille Lauro,
and F-14 tomcats from Sara's Air Wing forced down the aircraft on which the hijackers were escaping.
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1990, Aug
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Red Sea - in support of operation Desert Shield
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1991, Jan
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strike ops - operation Desert Storm
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1994, Aug
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- on her final deployment, Saratoga aircraft flew
thousands of sorties in the Adriatic in support of US
and NATO operations in Bosnia.
- decommissioned
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SCVN-2812
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A work in progress...
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