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USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
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USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

Career
Laid down:29 November 1993
Launched:7 September 1996
Commissioned:25 July 1998
Homeport:Norfolk, Virginia
Fate:in active service
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
Endurance:1.5 million nautical miles (2.8 million km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) estimated
Complement:6,275 officers and men
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

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

The first deployment of the HST was in Operation Southern Watch, from 28 November 2000 to 23 May 2001.

The carrier deployed again for Southern Watch on 5 December 2002, then participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, returning home 23 May 2003.

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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Nimitz | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Carl Vinson | Theodore Roosevelt | Abraham Lincoln | George Washington | John C. Stennis | Harry S. Truman | Ronald Reagan | [[USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)|
George H. W. Bush]]

List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy