“Intrepid” means “fearless, undaunted, adventurous,” and all those words could certainly describe the World War II aircraft carrier that is now a floating museum on New York City’s West Side.
From the tragedy earlier this month when a Mexican Navy ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge to the German battleship Bismarck having its rudder damaged and eventually sinking after being attacked by the ...
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — Veterans Day is set aside each year to give a grateful nation an opportunity to pay tribute to its war heroes, past and present. For those veterans who have been in combat ...
A team of surveyors scanned every inch of the USS Intrepid to create a 15-terabyte digital model—aided by its closure to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout World War II, the Intrepid ...
The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out how a World War II ...
They laid her keel — the official start of her life as an aircraft carrier — six days before Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 1, 1941. Which, it turned out, was one day before Ed Coyne turned 16. Little did ...
Seventy-five years ago, 93-year-old Ed Coyne of Plainview, a newly minted high school graduate, was on the USS Intrepid’s flight deck when a Japanese kamikaze plane torpedoed into the famous naval ...