The rooster crouched on top of this patch has ridden with ships named Saratoga since 1814, when a British shot smashed a coop aboard Commodore Thomas Macdonough's flagship on Lake Champlain and the...
Her crew called her Indy, and from 1991 to 1998 she was the only aircraft carrier the Navy kept permanently forward deployed, working out of Yokosuka, Japan. USS Independence was the fourth and last...