Scot MacDonald, 14, in Evolution of Aircraft Carriers (PDF), Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1º febbraio 1964, p. 69, OCLC 38029857.
«The versatility of the current US carrier fleet is largely due to the operation of what the press has labeled 'super-carriers', heavy duty aircraft carriers of the size, power, and potency of the Forrestals and the nuclear-powered Enterprise.»