During a Vietnam War reconnaissance mission, Lieutenant Jim Lloyd took off from the USS Saratoga but was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over enemy territory, forcing him to eject. On the ground ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Mike Richardson is among the generations of sailors mourning the loss of a great friend — the USS Saratoga that’s about to begin its final journey from Newport, R.I., to a ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Saratoga left its port in Rhode Island on Thursday for its final journey to Texas, where it will be scrapped.

The radio signal was weak and sounded like static. But John Lipscomb, a 19-year-old radioman on the USS Saratoga, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, thought he could hear a pattern hidden in the ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Saratoga has left its port in Rhode Island for its final journey to Texas, where it will be scrapped. The ship departed Naval Station ...

On the night of Oct. 10, 1985, Lt. Cmdr. Barry Steel, call sign Vert, was relaxing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. The ship was cruising in Alert 60, a readiness condition with weapons ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1956, serving as a cornerstone of U.S. naval power during the Cold War. -Measuring over ...

This morning, veterans of the USS Saratoga will be honored at a Veterans Breakfast at Naval Station Mayport. The aircraft carrier spent her entire career in Jacksonville, and was the first carrier ...