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USS Hornet (CV-8)
USS Hornet (CV-8) was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, commissioned in October 1941, that launched the Doolittle Raid against Japan and fought at Midway.
USS Independence (CV-62)
USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1959, forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, from 1991, and decommissioned in 1998.
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS Intrepid (CV-11) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served from 1943 to 1974 in World War II and Vietnam, then became the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan.
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a conventionally powered US Navy aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007 after service in the 1991 Gulf War.
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), also designated CVN 79, is the second Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, named for President John F. Kennedy.
USS Langley (CV-1)
USS Langley (CV-1), known as the Covered Wagon, was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted from the collier Jupiter and recommissioned in 1922; she was sunk off Java in 1942.
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington (CV-16), known as The Blue Ghost, was a US Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 that fought in nearly every major Pacific campaign of World War II.
USS Lexington (CV-2)
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed Lady Lex, was a US Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1927 and sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) was a US Navy rigid airship built in Germany as LZ-126, delivered to the United States in 1924 as a war reparation.
USS Macon (ZRS-5)
The USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a US Navy rigid airship that served as a flying aircraft carrier, launching Curtiss Sparrowhawk fighters until she crashed off California in February 1935.
USS Midway (CV-41)
USS Midway was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1945, the longest-serving carrier of the 20th century, now a museum ship in San Diego.
USS Nimitz
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and lead ship of the ten-ship Nimitz class, named for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and commissioned in 1975.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
The USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was an American battleship that capsized under torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, with the loss of 429 men, the attack's second-greatest death toll.
USS Panay incident
The USS Panay incident, also called the Panay Incident, was Japan's 1937 air attack that sank the US Navy gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River, killing 3 Americans.
USS Princeton (CVL-23)
USS Princeton (CVL-23) was a US Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 and sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 24 October 1944.
USS Ranger (CV-4)
USS Ranger (CV-4) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1934, the first American carrier designed and built as such rather than converted.
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61) was a Forrestal-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, in service from 1957 to 1993, with nine combat deployments from Vietnam through Desert Storm.
USS Ronald Reagan
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, commissioned in 2003 and homeported at Yokosuka, Japan, from 2015 to 2024.
USS Saratoga (CV-3)
USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier converted from a battlecruiser hull, commissioned in 1927 and sunk at Bikini Atoll in 1946.
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a United States Navy Forrestal-class supercarrier commissioned in 1956 that made 21 Mediterranean deployments and fought in the 1991 Gulf War.
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first American rigid airship and the first helium-inflated rigid, flew for the Navy from 1923 until it broke apart over Ohio in 1925, killing 14.
USS Stark incident
The USS Stark incident was a 1987 attack in which an Iraqi Mirage fired two Exocet missiles at the American frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 sailors.
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier commissioned in 1986, named for the 26th President, that served in the Persian Gulf War.
USS United States (CVA-58)
USS United States (CVA-58) was a planned United States Navy flush-deck supercarrier for nuclear-armed bombers, canceled by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson five days after its keel was laid in April 1949.
USS Wasp (CV-7)
USS Wasp (CV-7) was a US Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940, known for ferrying Spitfires to Malta in 1942 before supporting the Guadalcanal landings.
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an American Essex-class aircraft carrier in service from 1943 to 1970 that earned 16 battle stars in World War II and Vietnam.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier, lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1937 and lost at the Battle of Midway after fighting at Coral Sea.
UTIAS Snowbird
The UTIAS Snowbird is a human-powered ornithopter built by a student team at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, flying 145 meters in 2010.
Uzbekistan Airways
Uzbekistan Airways (O‘zbekiston Havo Yo‘llari) is the national flag carrier airline of Uzbekistan, a joint stock company founded in 1992 after independence, with its hub at Tashkent and a fleet of 47 aircraft.
V Australia
V Australia was the long-haul international airline of Australia's Virgin Blue group, which flew Boeing 777-300ERs between Australia and the United States from 2009 until 2011.