USS Oriskany (CVA-34), named after the 1777 Battle of Oriskany, was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that stood 872-feet long with a beam of 147.5 feet. The US Navy commissioned her in 1950 and ...
What You Need to Know: The USS United States (CVA-58) was a highly ambitious post-WWII U.S. Navy supercarrier program designed to carry large bombers capable of delivering nuclear payloads.