The Vietnam War would not be the only combat the USS ... hostages held at Uganda’s Entebbe airport. Later, the aircraft carrier would sail to the Persian Gulf alongside the USS Midway.

Operation Linebacker I was the venue by which both the USN and USAF produced their first aces (five or more enemy aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat) of the Vietnam War: ...

That man was Lawrence Cleveland Chambers, a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and the first African American to command a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ... by the chaos of war, remain friends ...