US Navy aircraft carriers, from front to back, USS Wasp, USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Hancock, and USS Ticonderoga at Ulithi Atoll in December 1944.US Navy In September 1944, the US Navy captured ...

Retired Cmdr. Roy Lee Mock joined the Navy at the tail end of the Korean War. By the start of the Vietnam War, he had earned his wings as a fighter pilot, and by 1963, he was flying an F-8 Crusader ...

CV-19 USS Hancock profile: During the 20th century, the U.S. Navy’s Essex aircraft carriers represented the largest ship class across the globe. Throughout the 1940s, two dozen Essex vessels were ...

During the final phase of the Vietnam War, Operation Frequent Wind evacuated thousands of Americans and Vietnamese refugees. The author's family was evacuated by helicopter from the Defense Attache ...

2020-06-13T21:44:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/870/20200613214537003_hd.jpgEntertaining refugee kids on a US carrier during the 1975 Saigon evacuation ...

CORBIN, RUSSEL G.; He moved to The Villages from Rochester, MI in 1998. He was a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, Landing Signal Officer on USS Hancock, 25 years in the Navy Reserve, retired as Lt.