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USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, the Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. warship too big to transit the Panama Canal. A revolutionary hull design, based on the planned Montana-class battleship, gave her better maneuverability than previous carriers. She served for an unprecedented 47 years, saw action in the Vietnam War, and was 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 of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.

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  • USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, the Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. warship too big to transit the Panama Canal. A revolutionary hull design, based on the planned Montana-class battleship, gave her better maneuverability than previous carriers. She served for an unprecedented 47 years, saw action in the Vietnam War, and was 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 of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.
  • USS Midway was laid down on 27 October 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding as the first of the US Navy's supercarriers based on the earlier Essex-class aircraft carriers. USS Midway was named in memory of the Battle of Midway, the first major clash of the US and Japanese navies in World War II in 1943. She was originally part of the experimental aircraft carrier class known as the CVB-class, which ultimately materialised in the Midway-class. USS Midway was, however, not commissioned until 10 September 1945, eight days after the Surrender of Japan. Despite this, she remained in service for nearly fifty years, before being decommissioned on 11 April 1992. She was then preserved on 7 June 2004, in San Diego, California, as USS Midway Museum, and remains as a naval museum to this day.
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  • Aerial view of the USS Midway Museum in 2011.
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  • USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, the Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. warship too big to transit the Panama Canal. A revolutionary hull design, based on the planned Montana-class battleship, gave her better maneuverability than previous carriers. She served for an unprecedented 47 years, saw action in the Vietnam War, and was 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 of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.
  • USS Midway was laid down on 27 October 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding as the first of the US Navy's supercarriers based on the earlier Essex-class aircraft carriers. USS Midway was named in memory of the Battle of Midway, the first major clash of the US and Japanese navies in World War II in 1943. She was originally part of the experimental aircraft carrier class known as the CVB-class, which ultimately materialised in the Midway-class. USS Midway was, however, not commissioned until 10 September 1945, eight days after the Surrender of Japan. Despite this, she remained in service for nearly fifty years, before being decommissioned on 11 April 1992. She was then preserved on 7 June 2004, in San Diego, California, as USS Midway Museum, and remains as a naval museum to this day.
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