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 ...

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 ...

Why is the Intrepid really leaving port? When Governor Pataki and city officials announced that the World War II aircraft carrier would go “on leave” for eighteen months, news reports talked ...

AFTER SPENDING 24 YEARS tied up at Pier 86 on Manhattan’s west side, the aircraft carrier Intrepid and its pier both needed a good cleaning—$60 million worth. During the highest of high tides ...