What You Need to Know: The USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has returned to Yokosuka, Japan, to serve as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed ...

On the morning of April 11, Capt. Brent Gaut, the commander of the USS George Washington -- an aircraft carrier undergoing major shipyard work at Newport News, Virginia -- got on the ship's intercom.

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture—The USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived at the U.S. naval base here on Nov. 22 for its second deployment to the city. The ship is replacing the USS ...

The Navy currently has 11 operational aircraft carriers, some of which are ... eight bear the names of former presidents: USS George Washington, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Theodore Roosevelt ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is deployed with F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter jets. USS George Washington: Yokosuka, Japan The George Washington remained pierside at Yokosuka naval base ...