Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — History was alive and well Tuesday on board the USS Intrepid as told by 99-year-old Arthur Grabiner, a US Naval Veteran. On the 80 th anniversary of the official ending of World War ...

Navy Lt. j.g. Alfred Lerch had a relatively short career for a naval aviator, earning his naval wings in 1944 and serving aboard the USS Intrepid in 1945 with, as he described it, only one “really ...