Friends Again

Hong Kong - The ships of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group docked in Hong Kong on April 3, making the first visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier since the carrier Kitty Hawk and its escorts were turned away from a scheduled Thanksgiving visit in a diplomatic swipe against the U.S.

The strike group includes about 7,000 sailors from the Nimitz and its air wing, as well as the cruiser Princeton and the destroyers Chafee, Higgins and John Paul Jones.