Summary and Key Points: The USS Ranger (CVA-61), a Forrestal-class ... in the early 20th century, aircraft carriers have become critical components of each navy that possesses them.

Johnson seemed to agree that such an aircraft carrier's main function ... just five years later the U.S. Navy moved forward with the more conventionally figured USS Forrestal-class.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Robbins and his crew called the plan “Operation Pinwheel” because of the circular motion the planes would create when pushing the massive carrier in its desired direction.

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...

USS John F. Kennedy had the distinction of being the final conventionally powered aircraft built ... years to have the Forrestal-class carrier preserved, but the U.S. Navy took that retired ...

US President Joe Biden announced Monday that two of the Navy's future aircraft carriers will be named for former commanders-in-chief Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "The future USS William J. Clinton ...