US NAVY SHIPS THE USS KEARSARGE CVS-33 PATCH USS Kearsarge, a 27,100-ton Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier, was built at the New York Navy Yard. She was commissioned in March 1946 and spent her...
She was known as “The Mighty O”—a ship forged in the final days of World War II and reborn in the jet age, destined to fight some of the most intense carrier operations of the twentieth century. The...