They laid her keel — the official start of her life as an aircraft carrier — six days before Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 1, 1941. Which, it turned out, was one day before Ed Coyne turned 16. Little did ...
Hundreds of people, including more than 180 former crew members, gathered aboard the USS Intrepid Museum on Wednesday to celebrate eight decades since the ship’s commissioning. Two of the ship’s ...
Steve Overmyer joined CBS News New York in February of 2011 as a sports anchor and reporter. He hosts Sports Update every weekend on CBS News New York and New York 55. NEW YORK - Eighty years ago ...
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This Intrepid pilot went from zero to ace in 13 minutes
Essex-class carriers were vulnerable to kamikaze attacks. World War II naval aviators like Alfred Lerch cleared the skies.
Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was one of 24 of its kind built during World War II. Having been launched so late in ...
Television host and military veteran Montel Williams is co-author of a new book about the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, which was rendered nearly inoperable by a torpedo in 1944. Against the odds, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A new history of the USS Intrepid will be co-written by a former Navy man otherwise known for his long career as a daytime television host — Montel Williams. “The Sailing of the ...
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