Summary: The USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, played a crucial role in World War II after being commissioned in 1943. Initially named Cabot, it was renamed to honor ...

Robbins and his crew called the plan “Operation Pinwheel” because of the circular motion the planes would create when pushing the massive carrier in its desired direction.

On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy ...

(Tribune News Service) — The decommissioned aircraft carrier formerly known as the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) has begun its final journey, departing from its long-held berth in South ...

An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye assigned to the ‘Black Eagles’ of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 113 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson ...

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) commissioning ceremony at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., in Pensacola ...