While this carrier was not as celebrated as other classes, it still earned two battle stars throughout the war. The Essex class was an iconic group of aircraft carriers vital to the United States ...

The Best: During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class of capital warships of the 20th century. These carriers ...

The USS Hancock (CV-19), the Essex-class aircraft carrier my father served on during the Vietnam War, was laid down on Jan. 26, 1943, and launched less than a year later, on Jan. 24, 1944, in time to ...

No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers.

The White House announced Monday that the Navy will name the two latest Ford-class aircraft carriers after former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The future USS William J. Clinton and ...

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

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President Joe Biden announced Monday that two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "Each knows firsthand the ...

The shield, which saved countless lives, was only possible because of America’s mighty aircraft carrier fleet. The U.S. Navy has 11 Nimitz and Bush-class carriers divided between the Pacific and ...

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