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==[[wp:USS Independence (CV-62)|USS Independence]] - CV-62== | ==[[wp:USS Independence (CV-62)|USS Independence]] - CV-62== | ||
:''"Freedom's Flagship"'' | :''"Freedom's Flagship"'' | ||
[[Image:USS Independence CVA-62.jpg|left|200px]]The second aircraft carrier of Earth's US Navy to bear the name. A [[wp:Forrestal class aircraft carrier|Forrestal Class]] ship, she was launched at the New York Navy Yard on 6th June 1958 and commissioned on the 10th January the following year. The carrier served in both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. | [[Image:USS Independence CVA-62.jpg|left|200px|The Forrestal class aircraft carrier USS Independence]]The second aircraft carrier of Earth's US Navy to bear the name. A [[wp:Forrestal class aircraft carrier|Forrestal Class]] ship, she was launched at the New York Navy Yard on 6th June 1958 and commissioned on the 10th January the following year. The carrier served in both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. | ||
<!-- During the Vietnam War, she participated in the first major series of coordinated strikes against vital enemy supply lines north of the Hanoi-Haiphong complex, successfully evading the first massive surface-to-air missile barrage in aviation history while attacking assigned targets, and executing, with daring and precision, the first successful attack on an enemy surface-to-air missile installation. During the Gulf War she launched twenty Navy aircraft in the Persian Gulf that were the first coalition aircraft on station over Iraq as Operation Southern Watch began. Southern Watch was the enforcement of a ban on Iraqi warplanes and helicopters from flying south of the 32nd parallel. From June 30, 1995 until her decommissioning, the Independence was the oldest ship in the US Navy's active fleet. --> | |||
She was decommissioned on the 30th September 1998 at Bremerton Naval Shipyard in the state of Washington. | |||