Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, including the USS Midway, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and USS Coral Sea, represent the pinnacle of U.S. naval engineering from World War ...

The week prior to Thanksgiving of 1979, on a gloomy foggy California day, my ship, USS Coral Sea, got underway from our home port of Alameda passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. We were scheduled ...

Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, named after the iconic Battle of Midway, consisted of three ships ...