What You Need to Know: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, introduced post-World War II, became essential to the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. Built for endurance, these carriers were the first to ...
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier and a U.S. Navy icon. Commissioned in 1961, the “Big E” tracked John Glenn’s Friendship 7, enforced the Cuban Missile Crisis ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford, named after the 38th President of the United States, is the next generation of American nuclear aircraft carriers. It gives a whole new meaning behind the name "supercarrier." ...