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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

the USS Independence. The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads — the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands — but it was ...

The USS Independence (CVL-22) was obliterated by nuclear weapons testing back in 1951. But new sonar images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that 64 years later ...