YOKOSUKA: The USS Kitty Hawk sails away off Kannonzaki Point near Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, following its departure for an undisclosed destination from Yokosuka Naval Base, the home port of the US Seventh Fleet, on September 21. The departure of the only American aircraft carrier stationed in the Western Pacific came ahead of anticipated strikes against the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA. —AP/PTI