Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYSizing up USS Midway's propellers, 1980
Stars and Stripes
December 5, 2019
Chet King ©Stars and StripesYokosuka Naval Base, Japan, March, 1980: USS Midway crewmember Petty Officer 2nd Class Gary Smith greets a Japanese worker beneath the ship's propellers and rudder at Yokosuka's Drydock Number Six, where the Midway was undergoing two months of painting, remodeling and refitting.
RELATED MATERIAL: Stars and Stripes' 1980 story on the Midway in drydock.