183 1940 USS Dixmude (A-609) Aircraft Transport / Escort Carrier 184 1937 USS Downes (DD-375) Multirole Destroyer Warship 185 1941 USS Drum (SS-228) Diesel-Electric Attack Submarine 186 1938 USS Enterprise (CV-6) Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier ...
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 ...
Chikuma during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS Enterprise; note smoke coming from bridge area which sustained bomb damage Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, Japan, circa 1930s Heavy cruiser Chikuma underway, circa 1940s View from a USAAF B-17...
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 ...
USS Enterprise (left), USS Portland (center), and USS South Dakota (center-right) in action during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note at least two Japanese aircraft above USS Enterprise, and USS South Dakota firing her secondary battery Torpedo damage to the stern of USS...
Battle of Midway: Japanese aircraft carrierJapanese aircraft carrier Hiryu maneuvering as U.S. Air Force B-17 bombers attack during the Battle of Midway, northeast of the Midway Islands in the central Pacific, June 4, 1942.(more) Nearly an hour after the initial American strike at the Japanes...
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.
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,...
Chikuma during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS Enterprise; note smoke coming from bridge area which sustained bomb damage USS California steaming at high speed in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, United States, circa 1921 USS...