Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...
The week prior to Thanksgiving of 1979, on a gloomy foggy California day, my ship, USS Coral Sea, got underway from our home port of Alameda passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. We were scheduled for ...
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Meet the Midway-Class: The U.S. Navy ‘Battle Aircraft Carrier’ with an Armored Flight Deck
-Though they missed that conflict, these massive carriers—the USS Midway, USS Coral Sea, and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt—served for nearly 50 years, their robust decks enabling the transition from ...
CORAL SEA (Aug 11, 2017) CH-53E Super Stallions, assigned to the œDragons of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS ...
What You Need to Know: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, introduced post-World War II, became essential to the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. Built for endurance, these carriers were the first to ...
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