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Guest · 1 Save the Forrestal drive switches carriers 1/30/2013, 10:02 pm

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LOL So someone spent more than 10 minutes with Google and figured out the Forestall was a wash. OK Let try for the Kitty Hawk. Never mind thinking the project though, just pull a project out of your ass and watch P_cola go crazy. If not the Kitty Hawk maybe the US Alabama.
Maybe a tad late with the Idea

USS Kitty Hawk CVA/CV-63
Museum Fund

Shipmates and friends of the USS Kitty Hawk:

We are in the process of raising funds to buy the USS Kitty Hawk. Our goal is to move this naval ship to Wilmington, North Carolina, and turn it into a museum so that its days in service will be known and remembered by all. The ship will not be released before 2015 ... however, we will need to be ready when it is released!

We need your help! It will take as much as $10-$20 million to get the ship and move it. We have a long way to go, but I'm very confident that it will be done.

To make donating easier, we can help you make direct deposits. Or, if it's easier, you can mail checks directly to me or Gary Barnes, at the addresses below. Several of our members have already gotten their employer to match their donations.

We are keeping track of everyone who donates and we'll be listing those names at the museum for everyone to see, unless you specifically ask not to be recognized.

If we do not receive enough money to move the ship to Wilmington, North Carolina, then we will find a place closer to Bremerton, Washington.
Thank You for Your Support,
James Melka, President
USS Kitty Hawk Veterans Association

Please make checks payable to: USS Kitty Hawk Museum Fund

Print out the USS Kitty Hawk Museum Donation Information Page and send it to:

James Melka
2712 280th Street
Winthrop, IA 50682
Gary Barnes
19406 N. 133rd Avenue
Sun City, AZ 85375

Guest · 2 Re: Save the Forrestal drive switches carriers 1/31/2013, 12:25 am

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If the Kitty Hawk becomes a museum think they will have reenactment of this?

Race Riot on U.S. Carrier ‘Kitty Hawk’
Submitted by tonyp on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 09:37
An ugly incident in U.S. Navy history occurred on Oct. 12, 1972, when a race riot erupted aboard the U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk while on combat duty in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. More than 100, and perhaps as many as 200, African American sailors began attacking their white shipmates that night, in a six-hour brawl that lasted into the morning hours of Oct. 13. By the time the rioting was finally subdued, 46 sailors—40 white, 6 black—had been injured, 3 seriously enough to require hospitalization.

The African American sailors were rebelling against simmering, long-perceived racial discrimination, including disproportionate assignment of menial tasks and harsher punishment for offenses than white sailors received. The outbreak was not a mutiny—the frustrated sailors were not trying to take over the ship—it was an explosion of anger and violence. After the situation was brought under control, 26 sailors—all African American—were charged with assault or rioting, or both. Eventually, 19 were found guilty of at least one charge.

Four days after the Kitty Hawk riot, another racial “incident” occurred on a Navy ship, the fleet oiler USS Hassayampa in Subic Bay, Philippines. A few weeks later, there was more racial unrest and fighting aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Constellation off the California coast. Clearly, the Navy had a problem on its hands.

In response, Congress conducted hearings into the Navy’s policies and the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., changed Naval Regulations and began a new program to improve race relations in the U.S. Navy.

This copyrighted article on the Kitty Hawk race riot was printed by the Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington) on Oct. 13, 1972:

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