When Pilot Lieutenant Jim Lloyd launched from USS Saratoga on a Vietnam War reconnaissance mission, a SAM missile hit his A-7 Corsair, forcing him to eject over enemy territory. Pursued by the ...

Over 100 veterans said their goodbyes to the USS Saratoga, a Forrestal-class carrier that protected the United States for nearly 50 years and saw action in Vietnam and in Operation Desert Storm.

Mediterranean Sea, April, 1965: The white-hot exhaust of a departing jet leaves a trail to the sky in a time-exposure photo taken from the USS Saratoga during maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea ...