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 ...
-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 ...