Key Points and Summary - Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids ...

Navy Lt. j.g. Alfred Lerch had a relatively short career for a naval aviator, earning his naval wings in 1944 and serving aboard the USS Intrepid in 1945 with, as he described it, only one “really ...

“Intrepid” means “fearless, undaunted, adventurous,” and all those words could certainly describe the World War II aircraft carrier that is now a floating museum on New York City’s West Side.

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — Veterans Day is set aside each year to give a grateful nation an opportunity to pay tribute to its war heroes, past and present. For those veterans who have been in combat ...

A team of surveyors scanned every inch of the USS Intrepid to create a 15-terabyte digital model—aided by its closure to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout World War II, the Intrepid ...

They laid her keel — the official start of her life as an aircraft carrier — six days before Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 1, 1941. Which, it turned out, was one day before Ed Coyne turned 16. Little did ...

Hundreds of people, including more than 180 former crew members, gathered aboard the USS Intrepid Museum on Wednesday to celebrate eight decades since the ship’s commissioning. Two of the ship’s ...