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The Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers Have An Embarrasing Message for the U.S. Navy

America Built 24 Essex-class Aircraft Carriers Fast. It Can’t Do Anything Like That Now -The Essex-class aircraft carriers ...
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No, the Aircraft Carrier Isn’t Dead

Debates over the “death” of the aircraft carrier ignore a basic reality: nothing else can do what a big-deck carrier does.
MinnPost

In western Minnesota, a fleet of World War II aircraft brings a fading era to life

As the Greatest Generation fades, the Fagen Fighters museum keeps its spirit alive with a display of the 'warbirds' that ...
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Rare WWII seaplane travels from Phoenix to Tucson museum

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The historic Philippine Mars seaplane has reached its new home at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson after a complex journey from Lake Pleasant, Arizona. The aircraft is 137 ...
WSB Radio

Chattahoochee Tech students train on rare World War II-era Navy plane

The open-cockpit biplane, known as the “Yellow Peril,” was originally used to train military pilots in the 1930s and 1940s.
Flying

Last American World War II Fighter Ace Dies at 103

Donald McPherson, believed to be the last surviving American World War II Navy fighter ace, has died at 103. He served as a naval aviator with VF-83 on the USS Essex in the Pacific Theater, achieving ...

80 years ago, a WWII B-17 bomber crashed in the Baltic. Scientists are finally learning who was onboard.

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...