NORFOLK, Va. — A legendary name in U.S. Navy history is being resurrected. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the next Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyer will be called USS ...
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced that the service’s newest destroyer will bear the historic Intrepid name. (Chief Petty Officer Shannon Renfroe/Office of the Secretary of the Navy) Navy ...
Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...
USS Intrepid was laid down just six days before Pearl Harbor—seventeen decks high, 27,000 tons of steel, built in half the ...