Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft carriers were deployed farther from supply bases than ever before. Existing ...
Key Points and Summary - In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal. -As part of a Super COD trial, Lt. Jim ...