The United States aircraft carrier USS ... Kitty Hawk was the first carrier of its class, launched in 1961 with a heap of improvements over its WWII-era predecessors. It completed six tours in ...

Michael Broussard's naval career spanned six years, taking him across multiple deployments while also serving on "the world's most famous battleship".

For many Americans, especially those born after the Vietnam War ended in 1975 ... There's also Larry Chambers, who during the war commanded the aircraft carrier USS Midway. When told a small plane ...

Anderson “Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the gripping real story ... “This docuseries will give an in-depth look at the Vietnam War and how the United States got involved in the conflict ...

"The large group most threatened is the 4.5 million people who worked in World War II shipyards, where asbestos dust ... and paint. Did the USS Kitty Hawk have asbestos? Yes. Construction of the USS ...

Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

New images reveal the extent of the damage the USS Harry S. Truman suffered this week when it collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The photos released Saturday by ...

Larry Chambers' orders saved lives by pushing helicopters into the sea during the end of the Vietnam War. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In April 1975, as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon, Americans ...

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier was involved in a collision Wednesday with a merchant vessel near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy announced. "The Nimitz-class ...

But his most defining moment didn’t come from this prestigious achievement — it came when he was just 30 days into his new role as Captain of the USS Midway ... the chaos of war, remain ...

Advertisement In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration of war against Spain. In 1933, U.S. President-elect Franklin ...

In December, the militant group also claimed to have downed a U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet that was operating from USS Harry S. Truman. In fact, that warplane was shot down in a friendly ...