In the last minute of the last day of duck season, ducks worked a nearby slough in the glow of an incandescent sunset.
No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers.
Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months ...