Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were built for the U.S. Navy during World War II, and only two did not continue their service during the Cold War. One of those was the USS Franklin (CV-13).
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The Battleship USS Illinois Is a Forgotten Footnote in HistoryEven though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been.
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