Category Archives: US Aircraft Carriers

USS Nimitz enters Guam

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy’s first turbo-electric-powered ship

. Conversion of another collier was planned but canceled when the Washington Naval Treaty required the cancellation of the partially built Lexington-class battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga, freeing up their hulls for conversion to the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. Langley was named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American aviation pioneer. Following another conversion to aContinue reading “USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy’s first turbo-electric-powered ship”

USS Lexington (CV-2) steams past Diamond Head off Honolulu in February 1933 during peacetime operations.

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group during an integration exercise in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, September 28, 2025.

USS George Washington Enters South China Sea

Sam LaGrone – November 21, 2025 5:03 PM The U.S. is maintaining a steady aircraft carrier presence in the South China Sea as both allied and Chinese military activity remains high around the contested Scarborough Shoal off the coast of the Philippines. Japan-based USS George Washington (CVN-73) entered the South China Sea via the Luzon Strait onContinue reading “USS George Washington Enters South China Sea”