1956 USS KITTY HAWK. Kitty Hawk was the name- ship of a class of four aircraft carriers developed from the Forrestal class super- carriers constructed in the 1950s.
1944-1945 USS Franklin in the Pacific Aircraft carrier versus kamikazes and dive bombers Commissioned in 1944, the Essex-class aircraft carrier Franklin came the closest of any member of her class to being lost during her relatively short period of active service in the Pacific theatre.
BONIN...
1944 USS HANCOCK. Eleventh of the twenty two ship- strong Essex class, the most important type of aircraft carriers built for the US Navy during the Second World War.
1942 USS LEXINGTON. The loss of the Lexington in the first naval battle fought exclusively by aircraft
Through the first five months of the Second World War, the Japanese seemed invincible. They rolled southwards, dominating the western Pacific rim, but then, in May 1942, they came up against...
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...
Ocean was one of a class of light fleet carriers that were built late in World War II as an expedient but were so successful that two survived until the 1990s.
On Her Majestys Service HMS Hermes in the Falklands Islands (May-June 1982)
In the early months of 1982, while the Argentinean Government was planning to invade the Falkland Islands, the carrier HMS Hermes was awaiting early retirement
after 22 years service with the Royal Navy.
The Essex class carrier USS Midway CVB-41 being launched March 20,1945. She would be commisioned September 1945 and join the fleet to late for action for now?
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