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 ...

“ By the afternoon, only one Japanese carrier remained: Hiryū. It’s believed Best’s bomb was one of four to strike the vessel, making him the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese aircraft ...

Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months for four years); now it takes the United States a decade to commission a ...

The USS Carl Vinson and its strike group recently steamed out of Thailand, where two of the carrier’s escorts scraped hulls.

As it battled Houthi threats around the Red Sea last year, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) also served as a testbed for ...

The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney at its homeport in Gaeta, Italy, on Jan. 31, 2025. The flagship of U.S. 6th ...

The American amphibious assault ship, USS America, can support flight operations by F-35B stealth fighter aircraft.