Perhaps no vessel embodies the U.S. Navy’s embrace of the aircraft carrier as the centerpiece of its strategy as the Essex-class carrier. Between 1943 and 1950, twenty-four of the thirty ...

Exactly scaled to one-ninth the size of an Essex-class carrier ... visitors may see if they buy a war bond—contain a model of a carrier’s boiler room, a section of enlisted men’s quarters ...

USS Oriskany (CVA-34), named after the 1777 Battle of Oriskany, was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that stood 872-feet long with a beam of 147.5 feet. The US Navy commissioned her in 1950 and ...