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USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned eight days after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest aircraft carrier in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal .
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The Midway class was a class of three United States Navy aircraft carriers. The lead ship, USS Midway, was commissioned in September 1945 and decommissioned in 1992. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was commissioned in October 1945, and taken out of service in 1977. [2] USS Coral Sea was commissioned in April 1947, and decommissioned in 1990. [3]
On 20 December 1963 all Carrier Air Groups were re-designated Carrier Air Wings and CVG-14 became Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14). In August 1964, while embarked aboard USS Constellation, CVW-14 conducted the first air strikes against North Vietnam. Subsequent combat deployments were made aboard USS Ranger, Constellation and USS Enterprise.
The USS Enterprise Recruit Barracks Building is the eighth of fourteen built as part of a $763 million recapitalization program. [11] USS Enterprise Recruit Barracks. The building is named after the eight USS Enterprises that have borne the name, [12] including the two famous aircraft carriers pictured around the building's quarterdeck.
USS Midway (AG-41), later renamed as USS Panay (AG-41), was a commercial cargo ship leased by the United States Navy during World War II. She was used by the Navy as a cargo ship and as a troop transport in the North Pacific Ocean. She was returned to her owner at war's end.
USS Midway (AG-41), which was named Oritani and then Tyree before being chartered as a general auxiliary in 1942, renamed to Panay in 1943, and returned to its owner in 1946; USS Midway (CVE-63), which was an escort carrier commissioned in 1943, renamed St. Lo one year later, and sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf shortly afterward
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