Key Points - The USS United States (CVA-58) was a post-WWII "supercarrier" designed to be a sea-based platform for heavy, nuclear-armed bombers, giving the Navy a key role in strategic deterrence.
The USS Massachusetts is largely believe to be the ship that fired the last shot of World War II. Here's what happened to that ship afterward.
On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast. Having once ...