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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 warship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal .
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]
VA-115, USS Midway: South Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Bombardier/navigator on an A-6A that crashed on the deck of the USS Midway during a night landing, ejected but not recovered [96] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] November 7: Brown, Robert M: Major: USAF: 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron: North Vietnam, Quảng Bình Province
Preserved at the USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA [46] CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Midway: 27 October 1945 1 October 1977 31 years, 339 days Scrapped in 1978 [47] CVB-43 Coral Sea: Midway: 1 October 1947 26 April 1990 42 years, 207 days Scrapped in 2000 [48] CV-44 No name assigned (no image available) Midway — — —
In September 1988 during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the squadron was embarked on USS Midway and operating in the Sea of Japan to demonstrate U.S. support for a peaceful Olympics. In December 1989, USS Midway, with VFA-151 embarked, maintained station off the coast of the Philippines during an attempted coup in that country.
Just prior to the Battle of Midway, the reconstituted VT-8 was the first squadron equipped with the new Grumman TBF-1 Avenger, a bigger, faster, longer-ranged replacement for the TBD. When Hornet sailed to the Pacific, a detachment of the squadron under the command of Lieutenant Harold "Swede" Larsen remained in Norfolk, Virginia to receive the ...
VF-24 made deployments to the Western Pacific aboard USS Midway, USS Bon Homme Richard and USS Hancock from 1959 to 1975. While on duty, the squadron earned the Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Commendation (2 awards), Meritorious Unit Commendation (5 awards), Battle Efficiency Award (1972), Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3 awards), and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
This category contains the Midway-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy ... USS Coral Sea (CV-43) F. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt; M. USS Midway (CV-41)