Sailors aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan held a wreath-laying ceremony in commemoration of the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea on July 26.

The USS Coral Sea’s Operational History. In 1950, the U.S. military’s AJ-1 Savage heavy attack bomber took off for the first time from a carrier on the Coral Sea.

The USS Coral Sea was one of the three Midway-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy introduced in the latter part of World War II. It had a home in the Bay Area for nearly 15 years.

When the United States opened its air attack on Vietnam in 1965, the Ageless Warrior was there. When South Vietnam was evacuated 10 years later, the Ageless Warrior was there. In 1986, when Preside… ...

The federal government recognises three American ships sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1942 killing more than 600 men as having national historical significance.

The company that has been scrapping the USS Coral Sea in Baltimore’s harbor for the past three years was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges that its workers had improperly and ...

People seem to have an infatuation with America’s last non-super carriers, the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and the USS Midway (CV-41). Both ships soldiered on into the last decade of the 20th century ...

The wreck of World War II aircraft carrier USS Wasp has been discovered in the Coral Sea more than 70 years after the ship was sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign.

The USS Lexington was originally commissioned as a battlecruiser but was launched as an aircraft carrier in 1925. She took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8, 1942) along with the USS ...

The Navy Friday relieved the skipper and four other officers of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, which collided with the Ecuadoran tanker Napo off Cuba last month. Although the Navy is still ...

The USS Lexington—also known as Lady Lex—was sunk by the Japanese navy during the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. She went down with 216 crew and 35 aircraft and made tragic history as ...