In December 1941, Ensign Harry Hartmann reports for duty at Pearl Harbor. He’s a “nugget,” a dive bomber pilot about to start his first deployment aboard the USSEnterprise. Hell rains from the skies as the Japanese launch a surprise attack. With the Bombing Six, Harry takes to the ski...
The Midway-class aircraft carrier acted as one of the longest-serving aircraft carrier designs in U.S. naval history. The USS Midway was first commissioned in late 1945 and was not decommissioned until 1992, serving its final tour of duty in Desert Storm. Few ships saw as much change in ...
USS Wasp (CV-7) was an aircraft carrier used by the United States Navy, commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship to be named Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed in the United St
The USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was a Lexington class aircraft carrier that was fielded by the United States Navy. It was the lead ship for the Lexington class, however her sister ship, the USS Saratoga, was commissioned a month earlier.
Sixteen Mitchells with spare crews flew cross-country, receiving modifications for the mission. Then they alit at Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda and were loaded aboard USSHornet(CV-8), America’s newest carrier. North of MidwayHornet’s unit rendezvoused with her sisterEnterprise. Only then ...
aircraft swarmed the sixty-four thousand-tonMusashifor more than five hours, hammering her with seventeen bombs and nineteen torpedoes, heavily represented byEnterpriseandFranklin’s air groups. Ten aircraft fell to Japanese AA, but it was the first time carrier planes sank a battleship underway,...