Miller was a World War II hero of the surprise ... funding of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers who was also a longtime segregationist and opponent of the US Navy's racial integration.

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

Bursting into prominence during World War II, the aircraft carrier is a staple of US strategy – and the most recognizable type of boat in the fleet. The aircraft carrier confers prestige ...

What You Need to Know: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, introduced post-World War II, became essential to ... carrier was ...

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