June 20, 1967 A war hero came home yesterday. The giant carrier USS Kitty Hawk with her compliment of 37-hundred men, gently glided against the quay wall at the North Island Naval Air Station to the cheers and tears of hundreds of next of kin and friends. This is the second-round trip for the Kitty Hawk to the Vietnam war zone. Once again, the gallant ship and her crew established an enviable battle record. The Kitty Hawk and her squadrons who, by the way, flew ashore Monday to North Island and Miramar…spent more than 7 months away from home. In mid-April, planes from the carrier were among the first to fly air strikes against communist Mig interceptor bases clustered around the North Vietnamese capitol of Hanoi. Daily reports of the intensity of air action in the war zone make these homecoming events of high emotion. Kitty Hawk pilots are credited with flying more than 10-thousand missions during the carrier’s deployment off Vietnam---and dropping over two million tons of ordnance on enemy targets. A salute and well done to the Kitty Hawk and her crew.