Summary and What You Need to Know: USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, had a storied career that significantly impacted U.S. naval history. Laid down ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier nicknamed “Fighting Lady,” earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation during World War II.

Summary and Key Points: The USS Franklin (CV-13), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, was one of the most decorated ships in U.S. Navy history. Commissioned in January 1944, it participated in ...

The final ship of the Essex-class, and the last wooden-deck aircraft carrier to serve with the U.S. Navy, she was laid down at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1942 ...

USS Intrepid (CV-11) also participated in the invasion of Okinawa and attacks on mainland Japan before the war ended. The Essex-class carrier, built at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock ...

Last August approximately 2,800 sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan joined the Puget Sound community after the aircraft carrier changed its homeport from Yokosuka, Japan, to Bremerton, in one of ...