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UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION
1910-1995
1980-Contin ued
accumulated a grand total of 723 days on station.
Those with over 100 contingency days on station
during the year included
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
whose two tours totaled 199 days;
Midway,
with two
tours representing 118 days;
Constellation,
with 110
days; and
Nimitz,
with 108 days. Other carriers
involved in contingency operations in the Indian
Ocean were
Coral Sea, Ranger, Independence
and
Kitty Hawk.
ship since World War II. She had been underway for
152 continuous days.
31 December
Carrier operations during 1980 in
connection with the Iranian crisis consisted of 10
tours by eight attack carriers (two with two tours
each) in the Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea. The carriers
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