Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was one of 24 of its kind built during World War II. Having been launched so late ...

AFTER SPENDING 24 YEARS tied up at Pier 86 on Manhattan’s west side, the aircraft carrier Intrepid and its pier ... Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) F-16, a Lockheed A-12 , and a McDonnell F ...

1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid flight deck. Isley and his FG-1D Corsair fighter never made it back to the Intrepid, shot down and declared missing in ...