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 ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, had a storied career that significantly impacted U.S. naval history. Laid down ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manny Herzig, longtime Falls High School teacher, resident of Ranier and avid outdoorsman, recently returned from a vacation stay in San Salvador, El Salvador. Herzig accompanied his daughter Linda ...

Officials say the land would soon be a Home2Suites hotel by Hilton. Township Board Chairman Tom Hubert said it will be an ...

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 ...

Flying Leathernecks. From one of the Essex-class carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight ...

The New USS Intrepid Last Friday, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially named DDG-145 the future USS Intrepid while aboard the retired Essex-class aircraft carrier that shares its namesake.