Today in Navy history: ‘Big E’ strikes back
A history lesson from the pages of Navy Times: “ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE IN THE ARABIAN SEA — Most Americans can only imagine striking back in anger after terrorist attacks 0n the United States on...
View ArticleFirst supercarrier goes for cheap
The Navy unloaded its first supercarrier Tuesday for 1 cent. Texas shipbreakers earned a penny from the Navy to dismantle and recycle the remaining hulk that was formerly the aircraft carrier...
View ArticleAircraft carrier, autographed: Lincoln sailors find plankowners’ signatures
Sailors on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln opened a time capsule of sorts last month and didn’t know it. While performing work connected to the refueling and complex overhaul Lincoln is undergoing...
View ArticleCuteness overload: Parents dress daughter up like aircraft carrier
Halloween is in the rear view, but two very sweet pics arrived in the Navy Times inbox that require sharing. These images show Addie, the 7-year-old daughter of Senior Chief Air Traffic Controller...
View ArticleAs anniversary nears, Nimitz pays visit to Pearl Harbor
That old saying about a picture being worth 1,000 words? There’s a reason everybody says it: A few words, anyway: As the striking photo above — part landscape, part history lesson — shows, the crew of...
View ArticleReports: Fox passes on carrier-based ‘Wild Blue’ drama
What started as a Navy-themed TV drama with an impressive Hollywood pedigree slowly became a show without a ship, without a star — and, eventually, without a chance. “Wild Blue,” an aircraft...
View ArticleReport: China begins building 2nd carrier (1st from scratch)
While the U.S. Navy awaits the delivery of the first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford in 2016, the Chinese navy appears to have its own flattop-construction milestone on the horizon. According...
View ArticleVIDEO: Lincoln leaders break down carrier’s extended overhaul
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln entered a Virginia shipyard last March for a midlife overhaul that will last until October 2016. While the flattop is out of the fleet’s deployment plans for the...
View ArticleThe Last Dive Bomber
A World-War II era Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver was unveiled at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. April 1. The Helldiver was the last purpose-built dive...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bush sailors build bombs for Iraq airstrikes
[HTML1] The aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush is getting ready to wrap up its Persian Gulf deployment, but before they head home, they’re lending a hand to American operations against the Islamic State...
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