The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

What You Need to Know: The top five WWII aircraft carriers—chosen for their strategic ... and long service across both ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Initially it was going to be called USS Cabot but its name was changed in memory of the sunken aircraft carrier, and as a sign of the fast recovery capacity of the US. After fighting in the Pacific ...

What can be said about these iconic warbirds that hasn’t already been said? Let us tell you. As was the case with torpedo bombers, the heyday of the dive bomber did not last beyond World War II. But ...

Since 1945 aircraft carriers have proved that they have an unrivaled ability to deliver massive firepower against the enemy at the same time as possessing the traditional flexibility of a navel ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Summary and Key Points: The USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier nicknamed “Fighting Lady,” earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation during World War II.

It is scheduled to transit eastward later, becoming the first French carrier to be sent to the Pacific Ocean ... the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained pierside at ...