Ships are (l-r): USS Alabama (BB-60); USS Indiana (BB-58), in distance, camouflaged; and USS Monterey (CVL-26).Photographed from USS Lexington (CV-16). During the first half of 1944, Monterey ...

It also includes 38 stars to denote his place in the presidency, with 26 filled in to represent his World War II service aboard the CVL 26, or USS Monterey. The map of the world stands for the ...

More:Goodspeed: Hwachon Dam was key mission in Korea Bush, a naval aviator, flew off San Jacinto (CVL 30) during World ... As a lowly lieutenant on the USS Monterey, a carrier you could probably ...

Even more appropriately, then-LT Ford performed his sea duty on an aircraft carrier, the USS Monterey III (CVL-26), from June 1943 to December 1944, whereupon he served as the ship's assistant ...

[Read full story on the USS Independence shipwreck] Aerial view of USS Independence (CVL 22) underway July 15, 1943 in San Francisco Bay, California. Before departing San Francisco, USS ...

Sailors assigned to the USS Monterey (CG-61) depart the ship for the final time during its decommissioning ceremony Sept. 16 in Norfolk, Va. US Navy Photo The Navy decommissioned the guided ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), the Navy and Boeing together found and surveyed the sunken USS Independence (CVL-22), a light aircraft carrier the Navy sunk in 1951 ...