USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific Theater, including at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It suffered heavy casualties during the invasion of ...

50-caliber machine guns. While this carrier was not as celebrated as other classes, it still earned two battle stars throughout the war. The Essex-class was an iconic group of aircraft carriers ...

Families looking for things to do in Corpus Christi with kids of all ages have a variety of interesting and fun sites to ...

There are five aircraft carrier museums in the United States. Four of them are Essex-class carriers, while the fifth is a Midway-class flattop. But all five ships date back to the World War II era.

The second and final phase of a project to remove hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic pollutants from the U.S.S.

The USS Hancock (CV-19), the Essex-class aircraft carrier my father served on during the Vietnam War, was laid down on Jan. 26, 1943, and launched less than a year later, on Jan. 24, 1944, in time to ...

Governor Henry McMaster and the South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCOR) today announced the USS Yorktown (Yorktown) Environmental Assessment and Remediation project will begin its second and final ...