Summary and Key Points: The Essex-class aircraft carriers, with 24 built and 17 seeing combat in WWII, played a crucial role in U.S. naval dominance from the mid-20th century through the Vietnam War.

Summary and Key Points: The Essex-class aircraft carriers, commissioned during World War II, were pivotal in the U.S. Navy's success in the Pacific. Designed pragmatically to meet the immediate ...

Perhaps no vessel embodies the U.S. Navy’s embrace of the aircraft carrier as the centerpiece of its strategy as the Essex-class carrier. Between 1943 and 1950, twenty-four of the thirty ...

Most of the Essex-class carriers were decommissioned in the 1970s, the USS Lexington (CV-16) operated out of Pensacola as a training ship, providing deck-landing and takeoff experience for naval ...

The ship was decommissioned in 1971 and scrapped in 1992. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific Theater, including at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

The ship was decommissioned in 1971 and scrapped in 1992. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific Theater, including at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.