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USS Forrestal

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The USS Forrestal was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. It was named after James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. Commissioned in 1955, the USS Forrestal served in the Vietnam War and the Cold War. The ship was decommissioned in 1993 and eventually scrapped in 2014.

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