由上文的“You…jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier(航空母舰) Kitty Hawk.”及下文的sailor可推断出“Kitty Hawk”应是一艘航空母舰。在船上应用介词on。aboard是“登船”之意。故选C。知识点:背景常识题 (10). B解析: Plumb不跟那个人打招呼与“一个人是飞行员,另一个人是水手”之间是...
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Even though she had captured and sunk 11 ships across her 218-day/30,000-nm war cruise, she had never fired a “war shot” round in anger, lost a member of her crew, nor taken a life. She arrived in the U.S. with every soul she had found on the sea. The gentlemanly early d...
Federal officials identify the remains of a Wisconsin pilot lost over Vietnam in 1967 Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing over the skies of Vietnam nearly 60 years ago...
United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted home rule on the road to...
Though the Navy was already researching how to connect ships, planes and weapons, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday created Project Overmatch in fall 2020 and tapped Small to lead the effort. Gilday has since said Overmatch is his No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Co...
On July 29th, 1967 the Navy Carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) experienced one of the most tragic accidents in the modern US Naval aviation history. While preparing to launch a 27-plane strike mission into North Vietnam, an un-commanded Zuni rocket was launched on deck f...
The USS Cusk was one of only four submarines to earn this ribbon. Because the missions were so classified, the crew was not informed of the award until it was discovered by accident almost forty years later. The award was for two of her most daring missions conducted in North Vietnam and...
The ship is named in honor of Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Lance Cpl. Miguel Keith, who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam exactly 51 years to the day his namesake ship joined the fleet. “This ship is named after an inspiring leader—a Marine,” said Adm. Craig S. Faller...
Several such sail-bys have been undertaken by American naval ships since that close encounter in the disputed waters, he said. “It was concerning because the ships got too close,” Sawyer said, adding that U.S. officials have voiced “our displeasure with what we consider to be ...