The United States sent one of its aircraft carriers for a trilateral naval exercise this week with its allies, Japan and South Korea, staging a show of force in front of North Korea.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier is now on its first deployment, five years after it was commissioned into service and 15 years after its naming.

Cmdr. Dennis Metz, the mini-boss aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, prepares for a boot shoot on the flight deck. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bill M ...

HANDOUT - A Japanese bomber scores a direct hit on the USS Yorktown, aircraft carrier, despite a tornado of anti-aircraft fire, Battle of Midway, in the Pacific, June 3rd to June 6th, 1942.