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Two Months Ago, between the ISBA Islands and Southwestern New Belkan

The joint US-AF New Belkan observation fleet picks up a large underwater structure 17 km west of New Belkan City. Due to it being dangerous to send a surface ship by the city, the chance that some of Delusion's forces may have seen the Kate Anderson, which is present in the group, and her sister ships after leaving the secret underground shipyard, and the ship's Über-cells were disabled due to a small electrical problem in the device. So the group sends the USS Springfield SSN-761 and USS Chicago SSN-721 to investigate. The voyage from their current location to the structure would take two days while submerged.

Two Days Later

The two subs reach their target. Searchlights from the Chicago shine on the structure followed by the Springfield's. The captains look through the periscopes at the first object and see what was first thought to be the USS Enterprise CVN-65, but was actually the two AIF-built carriers made like the Big E, and the two who's wrecks were never discovered until now: the Saratoga CVN-66 and Bunker Hill CVN-72. Onboard the Springfield, a sailor contacts an AF Aquaman-class sub used to relay the message to the Enterprise CVN-80 and the main fleet. The Enterprise relays a message back to the Springfield saying to retrieve the bells of the ships and return to the fleet, cause a Delusion fighter wing is approaching the sub's location. Once retrieved, the ships returned to the group and began to dock at an AIF-ISBA port. The bells were then given to Admiral Terrence Hood, who later gave them to Admiral Preston Cole.

Today

The bells of Saratoga and Bunker Hill are placed on the Calypso-class arsenal ships Saratoga and Bunker Hill. The crew of the ships that survived the sinking and family members of those who didn't survive were there for the historic bell transfer. Unlike the sister ships (excluding Enterprise), the ships were not salvaged of their parts to repair other ships, but were left unchanged to honor the fallen crew.