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USS AMERICA (CVA-66 / CV-66)

Patch at left courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret)
Patch at right contributed by Mike Smolinski.

Photos from the Collection of Larry Monroe, via Robert Hall
1969–1971

O2N2 plant, circa 1970
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O2N2 plant, circa 1970
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MM2 Larry G. Monroe
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27–30 April or 10–12 December 1970
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Crossing the Equator, Latitude 00 000, Longitude 40° 0' 0", 24 April 1970

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Operations
 
A "bomb farm"
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Replenishment at sea (rearming) from USS Chara (AE-31), May–July 1970

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Miss America (and company) visit USS America, 25 August 1970

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, possibly 10–12 December 1970

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Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais (A11)
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