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Retired Carrier Sunk Off Atlantic Coast
Sat May 21, 9:35 AM ET
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
The 84,000-ton, 1,048-foot warship that served the Navy for 32 years rests about 60 miles off the coast and more than 6,000 feet down, according to Pat Dolan, a spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command.
She did not give a location, but the Navy previously said the explosions would take place off North Carolina.
Dolan said the America went down May 14, finally flooded after the series of explosions over 25 days. No announcement was made at the time.
Dolan did not immediately return a telephone message left Friday by The Associated Press.
No warship this size or larger had ever been sunk, and plans to sink the America caused controversy.
"Not a day goes by that I don't think about it," said Lee McNulty, president of the USS America Foundation, which wanted to turn the ship into a museum. "Of all the carriers, that one should have been saved, just for the name America."
So the CV66, that saved in the Vietnam War, at the 1986 conflict with Libya, in the first Gulf War, and over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990s was "recycled" the hot way. For "testing" explosives. Anyone sees a connection to the recent situation on American soil?
