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	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Midway (CVB 41)
		Midway returned to Vietnam and on 18 May 1971, after relieving USS Hancock (CVA 19) on Yankee Station, began single carrier operations which continued until the end of the month.
		Midway was relieved by USS Coral Sea (CV 43) on 5 February.
		The Navy launched 228 sorties from Midway and USS Ranger (CV 61) in the Persian Gulf, from USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) enroute to the Gulf, and from USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), USS Saratoga (CV 60), and USS America (CV 66) in the Red Sea.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv41-midway/cv41-midway.html (1894 words)

	USS Midway, CVB / CVA / CV-41
		During the several hours Midway was being towed, I wandered the ship reliving memories and remembering the time I spent aboard her in my younger days.
		In remembrance of USS Midway and all the sailors who served aboard her, I have decided to share her magic with the rest of the world.
		While I believe it to be the most comprehensive history on USS Midway that is publicly available, I would very much welcome corrections and additions which can be supported and verified.
	www.midwaysailor.com /midway/index.html (580 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Photo Index: USS MIDWAY (CVB-41)
		USS Midway (CVB-41) launches a Lockheed P2V-3C Neptune bomber, with a JATO rocket boost, on 7 April 1949.
		USS Midway (CVA-41) preparing to launch a pair of F-8 Crusader fighters, during carrier qualifications, circa 1963.
		USS Midway (CVA-41) underway on 20 June 1963, with F-3 Demon, F-4B Phantom II and F-8 Crusader jet fighters on her flight deck.
	www.navsource.org /archives/02/41.htm (1413 words)

	The Midway :: San Diego's Aircraft Carrier Museum
		It is based on more than 300 interviews of Midway crew dating back to 1945.
		Midway has a number of wheelchair accessible exhibits and amenities.
		USS Midway Museum • 910 N. Harbor Drive • San Diego, CA 92101 • 619.544.9600 main • 619.544.9188 fax • www.midway.org
	www.midway.org (149 words)

	The Midway :: San Diego's Aircraft Carrier Museum - San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
		No carrier has the history or the crew to match the Midway. A 47-year odyssey that spanned the end of WWII and Desert Storm, an odyssey in which more than 225,000 Americans took part.
		It is based on more than 300 interviews of Midway crew dating back to 1945.
		Midway has a number of wheelchair accessible exhibits and amenities.
	www.midway.org /site/pp.asp?c=coIMKTMCF&b=81432 (154 words)

	CV-41 USS Midway
		A powerful extension of sea/air power, Midway trained between deployments and received alterations necessary to accommodate heavier aircraft as they were developed.In 1952 she participated in North Sea maneuvers',with NATO forces, and on1 October was redesignated CVA-41.
		Midway cleared Norfolk 27 December 1954 for a world cruise, sailing viathe Cape of Good Hope for Taiwan,.where she joined the 7th Fleet for operationsin the Western Pacific until 28 June 1955 when she sailed for overhaul at Puget Sound Nabal Shipyard.
		Homeported at Alameda, Midway began annual deployments with the 7th Fleetin 1958, and was on on such duty in the South China Sea during the Laotiancrisis of spring l961.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CVB41Midway.html (409 words)

	USS Midway (CV-41) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class, and the first to be commissioned after the end of World War II.
		Homeported at Alameda, California, Midway began annual deployments with the 7th Fleet in 1958, and was on such duty in the South China Sea during the Laotian Crisis of Spring 1961.
		Midway then sailed to San Diego where she was decommissioned at Naval Air Station North Island on 11 April 1992 in a ceremony in which the main speaker was Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Midway_(CV-41) (2397 words)

	USS Neosho (AO-23) Home Page
		Construction of the U.S.S. Neosho began in June of 1938 in Kearny, New Jersey, and she was launched on April 29, 1939.
		The U.S.S. Neosho (right) sits at the Ford Island dock in "Battleship Row." Several torpedo wakes and shock waves are visible in the water, and the U.S.S. California (far right) is oozing oil.
		Midway was a stunning American victory, but its outcome might have been very different if these two Japanese carriers had been there.
	www.delsjourney.com /uss_neosho/neosho_home.htm (3092 words)

	Battle of Midway Carrier: USS Yorktown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS Yorktown CV-5, sister ship to the Enterprise and Hornet, was launched April 4, 1936, at Newport News, VA, and commissioned at the Naval Operations Base (Norfolk, VA) in September 1937.
		USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, 4 June 1942.
		USS Yorktown (CV-5) being abandoned by her crew after she was hit by two Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedoes, 4 June 1942.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/midway/yorktown.htm (988 words)

	USS Midway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Midway, the first after Midway Atoll, the second and third in memory of the Battle of Midway.
		The first Midway (AG-41) was the Oritani and then the Tyree before being chartered as a general auxiliary in 1942, renamed to Panay in 1943, and returned to her owner in 1946.
		The third Midway (CV-41) was an aircraft carrier commissioned just after the end of World War II, in service until 1992, and as of 2004 a museum ship in San Diego, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Midway (191 words)

	CNN.com - USS Midway set for new life as naval museum - Jan. 6, 2004
		The aircraft carrier USS Midway arrived Monday in San Diego Bay, where it will soon have a permanent home along Navy Pier as the nation's biggest museum devoted to carriers and naval aviation.
		The Midway was the world's largest warship when it was launched in March 1945, less than six months before the Japanese surrender in World War II.
		The Midway was decommissioned in 1992 as the longest-serving carrier in U.S. Navy history.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TRAVEL/01/06/midway.museum.ap/index.html (423 words)

	CV-41 MIDWAY class
		The USS Midway was commissioned on September 10, 1945.
		When first built, the USS Midway's bow was open to the sea, and was enclosed in 1957 as part of a major overhaul.
		The former USS Midway, moved to the Navy's mothball fleet in Bremerton, Washington, was available as a donation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cv-41.htm (1199 words)

	USS Midway (CV 41)
		USS MIDWAY suffers a fire which originates in the exhaust ventilation system, quickly spreads through the 3A boiler uptakes on the second deck, and terminates in the main uptake space.
		MIDWAY was joined 21 November by USS KITTY HAWK, and both carriers, along with their escort ships, were joined by USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) and her escorts on 22 January 1980.
		The Navy launched 228 sorties from MIDWAY and USS RANGER (CV 61) in the Persian Gulf, from USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) enroute to the Gulf, and from USS JOHN F., and USS AMERICA (CV 66) in the Red Sea.
	www.navysite.de /cvn/cv41.htm (3388 words)

	Marine Corps News> USS Midway home to naval aviation history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Midway is the longest serving aircraft carrier in naval history.
		Stepping aboard the Midway, visitors follow in the footsteps of the more than 225,000 American servicemembers who called her home during the course of a 47-year tour of duty.
		Midway's service at sea began with her keel laying in the heat of World War II and closing in 1991 as the flagship for operations in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.
	www.usmc.mil /marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/5E4926A56BD307A585256FFE007A96CB?opendocument (480 words)

	USS Midway (CV 41)
		USS MIDWAY suffers a fire which originates in the exhaust ventilation system, quickly spreads through the 3A boiler uptakes on the second deck, and terminates in the main uptake space.
		USS MIDWAY experiences two explosions in an emergency equipment storeroom while operating off Japan, killing 2 and seriously injuring 9 with burns covering from 14 to 80 percent of their bodies.
		USS MIDWAY was the first carrier to be "forward deployed" in a foreign country, sailing for 17 years out of Yokosuka, Japan.
	navysite.de /cvn/cv41.htm (3388 words)

	Where`s Cherie?
		The USS Midway was launched and christened on March 29, 1945.
		The USS Midway which was 74,000 tons at decommissioning in 1992.
		The USS Midway has a crew of 4500 and is conventionally powered with 212,000 horsepower.
	www.wherescherie.com /newsread.php?newsid=276 (598 words)

	-San Diego Aircraft Museum. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was a term known throughout the Navy as the USS Midway steamed through a 47-year career of service to country.
		The USS Midway set new standards of naval aviation in the latter half of the 20th century.
		When others came home, the USS Midway remained at the “tip of the sword” on an odyssey shared by 200,000 Americans that spanned the surrender of Japan in WWII, the Cold War, Vietnam, the era of détente and Desert Storm.
	www.san-diego.us /san-diego-aircraft-museum.htm (458 words)

	USS Midway (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Midway's final voyage from NAS North Island to Navy Pier (January 10, 2004).
		The significance of the USS Midway to me started in 1992 when I boarded the ship for her decommissioning ceremony at NAS North Island.
		The Midway left the naval graveyard at Bremerton, Washington, on October 3, 2003, and arrived October 7 in Oakland for repainting.
	www.geocities.com /ussmidwaymuseum (301 words)

	Battle of Midway Carrier: USS Hornet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS Hornet CV-8 was one of three Yorktown-class carriers whose planes successfully repelled the Japanese incursion at Midway Island.
		Joined by the Enterprise off Midway Island, the plan was to approach the Japanese coast within 400 miles.
		Before returning to Midway, the Hornet pilots assisted in sinking cruiser Mikuma, damaged a destroyer, set cruiser Mogami on fire, and struck other fleeing vessels.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/midway/hornet.htm (550 words)

	USS Midway (CV-41)
		Ok, this is a little history of the USS Midway, first of the three 45,000 ton CVB's started near the end of WWII, was commissioned on Navy Day, Oct. 27, 45'.
		The Battle of Midway marked a turning point in WWII and proved conclusively the potential of Naval aviation.
		Midway's first major operation after shakedown was a exercise in the North Atlantic called Operation Frostbite.
	www.internettrash.com /users/tep06/midway.html (127 words)

	USS Midway
		Pictures of the USS Midway are courtesy of MBG Member Mike Piskula.
		USS Midway next to a USS South Dakota class battleship.
		USS Midway and a USS Northampton class heavy cruiser.
	axisdog.tripod.com /id27.htm (82 words)

	USS Midway - CV 41
		The third Midway, CVB-41, was commissioned Sept. 10, 1945, and initially assigned to the Atlantic Fleet.
		In December 1954, Midway began a world cruise, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope for Taiwan, where she joined the Seventh Fleet for operations in the Western Pacific.
		I was on the USS Sample FF 1048, an escort on the aft starboard quarter of the MIDWAY during very bad weather in the South China Sea.
	www.navy-units.com /Navy_Midway.html (299 words)

	USS Midway - Aircraft Carrier Museum - Last Minute Travel Deals from CaliforniaWeekend.com
		We found the Midway to offer just the right balance between a structured, orderly display and one that is more individualized to fit each visitorâs particular interests and time available to tour the museum.
		But in the Midwayâs case, there is a 47-year history that is good to keep in the back of your mind as you get a real sense of what itâs like to live and work on an aircraft carrier.
		Named for the famous Battle of Midway, the carrier did not actually see service in that battle, but did serve in combat during the Vietnam War and was one of six carriers sent to fight Iraq during Desert Storm.
	www.californiaweekend.com /california-vacation/uss-midway.html (1427 words)

	Successful takeoff \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Thanks to vivid descriptions by Midway museum volunteers, Osuna said, it was easier to envision jets being catapulted into the blue and returning to a screeching halt on the 4-acre deck.
		The Midway museum undoubtedly benefited from opening at a time when downtown is attracting visitors as never before with the Padres new ballpark; the expanded Convention Center; extensive development in the Gaslamp, Little Italy, Marina and East Village districts; and more cruise ships making San Diego a port of call.
		They agreed to establish a free viewing spot on the carrier's bow; they agreed to mitigate the Midway's environmental damage by purchasing 14 acres in the South Bay and maintaining the area as a wildlife habitat; and they vowed to be a good neighbor by steering visitors to nearby businesses and attractions.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050213/news_mz1c13midway.html (1220 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS Midway (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS Midway, longest-serving aircraft carrier in Navy history, is now the most-visited floating naval ship museum in the world.
		Midway also was the first carrier homeported in a foreign country when it arrived Yokosuka, Japan in 1973.
		Midway is moored alongside Navy Pier on downtown San Diego's Embarcadero waterfront.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/midway.htm (197 words)

	USS Midway CVB-41 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS Midway was put to sea just as WWII came to an end.
		Midway tested the use of helicopters for search and rescue, and even hosted the launch of a captured German V-2 rocket.
		Midway was refit with an angled deck in the late 50's.
	www.visi.com /~jweeks/carriers/midway.html (201 words)

	USS Midway (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first Midway (AG-41) was the Oritani and then the Tyree before being chartered as a general in 1942 renamed to Panay in 1943 and returned to her owner in 1946.
		God Was at Midway: The Sinking of the Uss Yorktown (Cu-5) and the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway
		"God Was At Midway" is a very special piece of history, for it tells the story of the great 1942 battle from a perspective you probably haven't yet seen or expected.
	www.freeglossary.com /USS_Midway (414 words)

	Madoc.us: USS Midway in San Diego Bay
		Due to the way the Midway was docked, and due to the renovation work still be ongoing, her starboard side was not as accessible as her port side.
		I thought it a rather nice touch for the Midway to be docked where it was as that placed it nicely in view of the Battle of Leyte Gulf Memorial.
		The Midway is named after the US Naval victory which marked the turning point of the Pacific War and the Leyte Memorial which marks the battle that was the last major naval engagement in that war.
	www.madoc.us /midway.shtml (1204 words)

	List of Related HomePages for USS Midway CIC/Ops (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Midway V-2 Division Cats & AG: This is dedicated to all ABs who busted their rear, day or night, sending airctaft off the ship and getting them back aboard.
		The Battle for Midway: Just after midnight on 4 June, Admiral Nimitz, based on patrol plane reports, advised Task Forces 16 and 17 of the course and speed of the Japanese...
		USS Midway 41, US Navy's Number One Carrier: Welcome to everyone visiting our USS Midway CV- 41 site, it is just one among many.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListHomePages/1,13491,737048,00.html (462 words)

	USS MIDWAY
		he Midway bounced around the Western Pacific, Vietnam (off Yankee Station and South Vietnam), Philippines with a occasional foray to Hong Kong and Pusan, Korea (we were the first Carrier to go to Korea since the early 60s).
		USS Coral Sea (CVA 43), USS Hancock (CVA 19), USS Enterprise (CVAN 65) and USS Okinawa (LPH 3) responded 19 April 1975 to the waters off South Vietnam when North Vietnam overran two-thirds of South Vietnam.
		He came on board with is entourage and several large case reported to contain a very large amount of American money (thank you very much, Uncle Sam).
	www.members.tripod.com /masterchiefscorner/uss_midway.htm (505 words)

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