USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier and a U.S. Navy icon. Commissioned in 1961, the “Big E” tracked John Glenn’s Friendship 7, enforced the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

During the convoy mission Operation Excess, the British carrier HMS Illustrious was targeted by a massive swarm of Axis dive ...

When it comes to huge bombardments from naval vessels, some might think more of enormous battleships, but the United States doesn't field battleships anymore. Carriers have, in a sense, taken their ...

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America has no shortage of military museums spread across the country, but having one inside of a retired aircraft carrier is a special kind of cool.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group prepares for aerial refueling on Feb. 1. (SSgt. Jackson Manske/U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 1 ...

When nuclear energy is mentioned, most people think about nuclear power plants, but did you know that nuclear technology fuels some of the most advanced ships in the world? Nuclear energy plays a ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and strike capabilities. Not wanting to be viewed as the ‘sick man’ of the Axis ...

A key component of military operations since the Second World War, aircraft carriers remain an indispensable tool of warfare and diplomacy for the countries that have them. Aircraft carriers are not ...

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; The Bird Farm; The Aircraft; Attack On Taranto; Infamy; Turkey Shoot; Divine Wind; Keep 'Em Flying; Korean Air War; Learning ...

A small boat passes in front of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as it is anchored of the coast of Faliro, near Athens, Greece, on March 29, 2012. File photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP A ...