Summary and Key Points: The Essex-class aircraft carriers, commissioned during World War II, were pivotal in the U.S. Navy's success in the Pacific. Designed pragmatically to meet the immediate ...

Perhaps no vessel embodies the U.S. Navy’s embrace of the aircraft carrier as the centerpiece of its strategy as the Essex-class carrier. Between 1943 and 1950, twenty-four of the thirty ...

Summary and Key Points: The Essex-class aircraft carriers, with 24 built and 17 seeing combat in WWII, played a crucial role in U.S. naval dominance from the mid-20th century through the Vietnam War.

Perhaps no vessel embodies the U.S. Navy’s embrace of the aircraft carrier as the centerpiece of its strategy as the Essex-class carrier. Between 1943 and 1950, twenty-four of the thirty ...

Yet even as that disastrous year ended, Newport News shipbuilders were putting the finishing touches on the lead ship in a new class of carriers ... Essex destroyed more than 1,500 enemy aircraft ...

the centerpiece of the image five Essex-class aircraft carriers anchored in a row stretching to the horizon. Their hulls sport brilliant camouflage paint schemes, their flight decks packed with ...

USS Oriskany (CVA-34), named after the 1777 Battle of Oriskany, was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that stood 872-feet long with a beam of 147.5 feet. The US Navy commissioned her in 1950 and ...

Learn more. NEW YORK — August 16 will mark the 80th anniversary of the commissioning of USS Intrepid (CVS-11), the World War II-era Essex class aircraft carrier that is now the centerpiece of ...