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Encyclopedia > USS Harry S. Truman
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USS Harry S. Truman alongside Military Sealift Command Oiler USNS John Lenthall in the Mediterranean Sea
Career
Laid down: 29 November 1993
Launched: 7 September 1996
Commissioned: 25 July 1998
Homeport: NS Norfolk, Virginia
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
General Characteristics
Displacement: 78,453 tons light, 101,378 tons full
Length: 1092 ft (333 m) overall
1040 ft (317 m) waterline
Beam: 252 ft (77 m) flightdeck, 134 ft (41 m) extreme
Power plant: two A4W reactors, four steam turbines
Propulsion: four screws; 260,000 shp (190 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots (56 km/h)
Endurance: 1.5 million nautical miles (2.8 million km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) estimated
Complement: 6,275 officers and crew
Aircraft: 80+ F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets, F-14 Tomcats, E-2 Hawkeyes, C-2 Greyhounds, S-3 Vikings, EA-6 Prowlers, and SH-60 Seahawks

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, named after President Harry S. Truman.


The first deployment of Harry S. Truman was in Operation Southern Watch, from November 28, 2000 to May 23, 2001. The carrier deployed again for Southern Watch on December 5, 2002 and then participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, returning home May 23, 2003.


External link

  • Official website (http://www.navy.mil/homepages/cvn75/)
  • An unofficial USS Harry S. Truman webpage (http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cvn75.html)
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The ship anchors outside Portsmouth, England, while her crew enjoy a port visit.
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The Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Spica cruises alongside Harry S. Truman during replenishment operations in the Mediterranean Sea on November 1, 2004.
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Harry S. Truman and the Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi operate near each other in the Atlantic Ocean while participating in Majestic Eagle 2004, a multinational war exercise conducted off the coast of Morocco.


Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Nimitz | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Carl Vinson | Theodore Roosevelt | Abraham Lincoln | George Washington | John C. Stennis | Harry S. Truman | Ronald Reagan | George H. W. Bush

List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

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Ship in Service (348 words)
The USS Harry S. Truman, America's newest aircraft carrier, is expected to be in service for half a century.
The keel for the Truman was laid in 1993.
The USS Ronald Reagan is scheduled to be commissioned sometime after the turn of the century.
Harry S. Truman - dKosopedia (3059 words)
Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth Vice President (1945) and the thirty-third President of the United States (1945 – 1953), succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Truman was a folksy, unassuming president, and popularized phrases such as "The buck stops here" and "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." He exceeded the low expectations many had at the beginning of his administration, and developed a reputation as a strong, capable leader.
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri, the eldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
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