File:USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS Sample (FF-1048) refueling from USS Sacramento (AOE-1) in the Pacific on 16 March 1978.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and the frigate USS Sample (FF-1048) refueling from the fast combat support ship USS Sacramento (AOE-1) in the Pacific on 16 March 1978. Steaming in the background are the guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) and the guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge (CGN-25). Kitty Hawk, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), was deployed to the Western Pacific from 25 October 1977 to 15 May 1978.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo USN 1172584 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author PH1 Arthur E. Legare, U.S. Navy

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