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The following listing covers port visits for carriers (CV, CVA, CVAN, CVS) deployed to Vietnam during the conflict. Sources for the information are listed in the text. Compiled in August 2003 by...
In October 1952, Coral Sea was reclassified to be an attack aircraft carrier, which changed her hull number to CVA-43. In early 1957, she was sent to the west coast to be modernized. In January 1960, the new and improved ship was returned to active service.
Coral Sea, Midway, Hancock, Enterprise, and Okinawa responded on 19 April 1975 to the waters off South Vietnam when North Vietnam overran two-thirds of South Vietnam. On 29–30 April 1975, Operation Frequent Wind was carried out by Seventh Fleet forces.
A retired Navy chief radioman has teamed with a Florida-based law firm to make the map available to “blue water” Vietnam veterans, their widows and anyone interested in seeing where Navy and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs will reexamine compensation claims from veterans exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the waters off Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
With 875 days on the line off Vietnam, Coral Sea topped all other carriers for combat operations during the Vietnam War. But the price her aviators paid was dear; 39 men were listed killed or missing in action, as 69 of their aircraft were lost in combat.
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 II through the...
On 9 May, the USS Coral Sea’s (CVA-43) Air Wing 15 began the years-delayed mining campaign against North Vietnamese ports and waterways. Flying low, nine of Commander Roger Sheets’ A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs dropped 36 time-delayed mines in Haiphong’s harbors—the bow wave of thousands of “weapons that wait” dropped over the next ...
The USS CORAL SEA was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on April 30, 1990, after more than 42 years of service. The ship was sold for scrap on May 7, 1993, making the CORAL SEA the largest warship ever scrapped.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) was a Midway-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service during the Vietnam War before being retired in 1990.