Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was one of 24 of its kind built during World War II. Having been launched so late in ...
In February 1944, USS Intrepid was hit by a Japanese torpedo during the attack on Truk and suffered serious flooding and a jammed rudder that left her circling helplessly. With steering gone and the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A new history of the USS ...