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USS Midway

Interesting facts

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Big things you see Sailing in San Diego: CV 41 (USS Midway)

Construction

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Christening of USS Midway (CV-41) - 20 March 1945

By drone

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USS Midway Aircraft Carrier San Diego Drone 4K

Inside

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USS Midway (CV-41) in Arctic Tests - March 1946

Movie appearance

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Aircraft take off from the USS Midway (CVA-41) underway and crew watch Napalm bom...HD Stock Footage

USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal. She operated for 47 years, during which time she saw action in the Vietnam War and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm. Decommissioned in 1992, she is now a museum ship at the USS Midway Museum, in San Diego, California, and the only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier commissioned right after World War II ended that was not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.