My LCDR dad’s best friend in the Navy served on the Kitty Hawk in the sixties and I remember as a 16 year old getting a private tour of the ship in Norfolk when it was the most advanced thing the Navy had.
The Kitty Hawk appears to be much smaller than, for example, the Ronald Reagan. Does anyone have the size and capacity comparative data?
My dad’s (David “Barrel” McRae) first tour of duty as a Naval aviator was with Fighter Squadron 213 on the U.S.S Kittyhawk off the coast of Vietnam. He died in ‘91 and seeing this story is bittersweet...