On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey.

Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are "broken up" after their years of service. It begins with a ...

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Underway during carrier airwing qualifications in the Northern Puerto Rican Operations Area, 10 December 1996. (Photo: PH2c Scott A. Moak, USN. via U.S. Navy from the ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

On a cold, dreary Thursday in Philadelphia, a smattering of people came to the waterfront to see the former Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) begin its final journey.

(Tribune News Service) — The decommissioned aircraft carrier formerly known as the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) has begun its ... 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the USS JFK was used in a number ...

"Having a chance to get to know the people who served on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) really gave me insight into who he was and what kind of leader he was in a way that I wouldn't have had any ...

and both CV-63 and CV-67 were ordered to be scrapped. What is noteworthy is that the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation had sought for years to have the Forrestal-class carrier preserved, but the U.S ...