USS Wasp CV-18: The Aircraft Carrier That Battled Kamikazes and Saved Astronauts What You Need to Know: The USS Wasp (CV-18), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, earned a remarkable eight battle ...

In May 2007, two Journal News journalists took in Fleet Week from the deck of a multipurpose amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp.

NORFOLK, Va. — The Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship USS Wasp is coming home. The vessel -- with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina aboard---departed ...

Gerald J. Clark, passed away Monday, (March 4, 2002) in Somers. He retired from Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in East Hartford after 30 years of service. He served in the Navy on the USS Wasp, CV-18 ...