Designed as a “beefier battle carrier” with an armored flight deck, the Midway-class carriers including the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and USS Coral Sea, initially aimed to carry 130 aircraft.

The USS Midway is huge. She was the first of a new ... Now she sits in quiet San Diego, a massive floating museum. She's the largest aircraft carrier in the world that you can tour, and the ...

Today, the USS Midway is preserved as a museum in San Diego, symbolizing the class’s legacy. The Midway-class aircraft carrier was a workhorse of the United States Navy. First deployed by the ...

The USS Midway, an aircraft carrier-turned-museum, was evacuated early Wednesday as firefighters converged on the iconic ship and found smoke, authorities said. San Diego fire department spokesman ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The USS Midway Museum has a newly restored aircraft exhibit on board. A C-2 Greyhound "Carrier Onboard Delivery" aircraft was recently brought from Naval Air Station North ...

Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier ... USS Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet, all of which were at the tide-changing Battle of Midway.