The Essex-class aircraft carriers, the most numerous class of fleet carriers ever constructed, not only led the US Navy (USN) to victory in the Pacific theater during World War II but also proved pivotal through the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Despite high casualty rates within the US Navy, these vessels…
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USS Valley Forge was constructed as one of the “long-hull” Essex-class ships, known as the Ticonderoga subclass. Beginning in 1943, ships in this class featured lengthened bows above the waterline, which increased deck space and improved arcs of fire.
Sterling Cale, 102, died Jan. 20, and Edward Carroll, 99, died Feb. 13. The two were among the last remaining survivors of the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.