National Interest on MSN1 个月
USS Wasp (CV-7): The Worst Aircraft Carrier of World War II
What You Need to Know: The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as ...
How The USS Wasp Aircraft Carrier Was Sunk & How Far It Lies Beneath The Ocean
The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean ...
Smithsonian Magazine4 年
Flying on the Homefront: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Cornelia Fort U.S. Air Force The WASP flew 60 million miles in all types of military aircraft, including fighters and B-17 and B-29 bombers, and paved the way for today’s fully vested female ...
Military.com6 年
Tarawa/Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship
with a combination of aircraft and landing craft. The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by ...
SEAPOWER12 天
USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group Returning from Deployment
Aircraft assigned to the “Blue Knights” of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 365 (Reinforced) operate with the ...
readersdigest4 天
Pilot explains why airplane mode on phones is so important
A seasoned pilot has explained the real reason why you should not use your phone mid-flight, saying it's "not a conspiracy", ...
PBS7 年
Militarization of the WASPS
and they made the announcement that for the first time in history women were going to fly military aircraft, it really set a bomb under all of us," one WASP later recalled. "I thought ...