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Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

-- General George Patton Jr

USS United States (CVA-58)

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United States, a 65,000-ton attack aircraft carrier, was the Navy's first carrier of post-World War II concept and design. Intended to carry relatively large jet-propelled strategic bombers, she was laid down at Newport News, Virginia, on 18 April 1949. However, her construction was cancelled only five days later by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, in favor of building a large force of land-based B-36 bombers. The small amount of material already worked into the United States was subsequently broken up in her building dock.

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