Aircraft carriers were the backbone of naval air power during World War II. This footage shows the intense reality pilots faced as they returned from combat, including a dramatic crash landing as a ...

Naval aviators believe they are the best pilots on earth — just ask them — and the primary reason they cite is hard to argue with: they land on aircraft carriers. Whether in calm seas and sunshine or ...

Key Points and Summary - Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Coral Sea—were the U.S. Navy’s first “big deck” ...