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Meet the Midway-Class: The U.S. Navy ‘Battle Aircraft Carrier’ with an Armored Flight Deck
-Though they missed that conflict, these massive carriers—the USS Midway, USS Coral Sea, and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt—served for nearly 50 years, their robust decks enabling the transition from ...
The week prior to Thanksgiving of 1979, on a gloomy foggy California day, my ship, USS Coral Sea, got underway from our home port of Alameda passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. We were scheduled for ...
It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built ...
CORAL SEA (Aug 11, 2017) CH-53E Super Stallions, assigned to the œDragons of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS ...
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