What You Need to Know: The USS Wasp (CV-18), an Essex-class aircraft carrier ... pound armor-piercing bomb that penetrated the flight deck as well as the armor-plated hanger deck.

Remember a few weeks ago when we ran the picture above showing an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter hovering over what appears to be a new deck coating aboard the USS Wasp? We wondered is the coating was ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940 ... causing insurmountable damage to the deck, power plant, and other vital areas. As a result of the damage, the destroyer USS Lansdowne scuttled ...

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) in drydock at Bayonne, New Jersey, showing the damage to the carrier’s bow from her 26 April 1952 collision with USS Hobson (DMS-26). Wasp ...