1942 USS ESSEX. Lead-ship of the most important class of air craft carriers operated by the US Navy during the Second World War, USS Essex was to have a long career, serving until the 1970s.
THE ESSEX CLASS CARRIERS
The Essex was based loosely on the Yorktown of almost a decade earlier but...
1941-1945 From Pearl Harbour to Iwo Jima USS Saratoga during the Pacific War.
USS Saratoga took part in almost all the naval battles of the Second World War in the Pacific; she was hit a number of times, sometimes seriously, but managed to fight through to the end, and was finally expended...
USS Enterprise 1941-1945
In the war against Japan from 1941 to 1945, the aircraft carrier Enterprise took part in all the great air-sea battles of the war between Japan and the United States in the Pacific.
THE GREAT SURVIVOR
At the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the US Navy mustered...
1936 USS ENTERPRISE. USS Enterprise, CV6, was one of the ships which effectively defined the form of the modern aircraft carrier. Built in the mid-I 930s, she was to become a legend in her own life time during the Pacific war against Japan.
A SHIP FOR OUR TIMES
The Yorktown and her...
United States 120mm anti-aircraft gun at the USS Alabama Memorial Park located in Mobile Bay,Alabama U.S.A..Used mostly by the U.S. Army it had a horizontal range of 28,255 yards and a maximum altitude of 48,000 feet
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