Revealed: Viet Cong Commandos Sank a Navy Aircraft Carrier

Yes, Capt Tom Brown , it is the USNS CARD (T-AKV-40).

They did it at Pearl Harbor after December 7, 1941. A lot more damage from torpedoes and bombs. That is one movie I wished that they had made about the salvage of those ships. Talk about American pride. That would have been about equal to The bombing of Japan six months later by the Army Air Corp. Unfortunately a government/military does not learn form previous mistakes. It tends to repeat them every so often. What has always bothered me was how they went after Admiral Kimmel and General Short about Pearl Harbor, yet nothing was done about General MacArthur in the Philippines 24 hours later, when Japanese attacked successfully. General MacArthur knew about Pear Harbor. Washington was responsible for not informing Pearl Harbor about what was going on. There was no excuse for the Philippines being caught with their pants down.

Couldn't have been that badly damaged since she was repaired and back in service in December the same year.
Comparing it to the USS Cole, the Cole took 14 months before she was back in service.

SSG Robert Webster - not exactly a 1:1 comparison. The Card was a 1940s era boat (not complex). The Cole is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. (Very complex)

Any halfway decent shade tree mechanic can do just about any and all repairs to a 1940s era automobile, including bodywork. That same shade tree mechanic would be a fool to start tinkering with even minor repairs to a new Hyundai today. (With all the cameras, sensors, software, plastic body parts, etc).