The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads — the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands — but it was deliberately sunk, or ...

Sonar images revealed the condition of the purposely sunk ship. [Read full story on the USS Independence shipwreck] ... (CVL 22) underway July 15, 1943 in San Francisco Bay, ...

The U.S. Navy is signaling, albeit tentatively, its willingness to replace some of its existing nuclear-power aircraft carriers with smaller, conventionally fueled light carriers. Here's our guess ...

The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads—the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands—but it was deliberately sunk, or ...