USS Midway Aircraft Carrier - Flight deck
- by Steven King
- 2016-10-27
- 12 media
- 12 available
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Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway operated for an unprecedented 47 years.
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USS Midway's design, based on the planned Montana-class battleship, made it the largest ship in the world until 1955.
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It served in the Vietnam War and was the flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm as well.
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Decommissioned in 1992, it is now a museum ship in San Diego, California.
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6 helicopters were pushed into the sea to make room to rescue South Vietnamese pilot Buang-Ly and his family in 1976.
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Flight deck crew on aircraft carriers was one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
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We were so lucky to see Nimitz-class supercarriers USS Carl Vinson and USS Theodore Roosevelt across the bay.
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This elevator could lift a plane up to flight deck in 5 seconds, and then back down in 10 seconds.
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The model planes here were used to track the actual planes and their launching/landing sequences.
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Midway carried around 100 planes during the 1940s-50s, and 65 from Vietnam war until retirement.
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Checkout this Control Tower tour in another Gala360 story.
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The 25-foot tall bronze Unconditional Surrender statue by Seward Johnson.