USS Midway Museum Full Walkthrough 

The Midway is a marvel. We didn't expect to experience a city onboard. The best part for us was getting to hear the stories of those that lived aboard and reading some of the letters that were pinned to the board next to the Post Office. We were able to take some pictures from the recipe books they had that we want to try out, too.

Thank you for your service!

Thank you for your service!

Thank you very much! The volunteers were wonderful!

Our son has already asked us to plan another trip out there. We live on the East Coast so it will be a while before that happens. The Midway volunteers were wonderful! We spent over an hour in the CIC with his asking a couple dozen questions and they answered every single one for him with patience and enthusiasm.

@Royal Shenanigans if you haven't been, you might want to try visiting the USS Alabama at Memorial Park. The park is a combination Air Museum, along with the Alabama and the "Drum", a WWII Diesel electric submarine.

Thank you for the recommendation - we'll add it to our list!

Boiler tech. On Midway 1979 to 1981. Hard work lots of time at sea.JohnMcVeagh

I need to see her again. Was there from 1982-85 and miss her.

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Thank you for your service!

@@royalshenanigansusa THANK YOU!

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@@royalshenanigansusa and thank you for yours!

Thank you for your service! Our son was very curious about what was in the places that were blocked off onboard...and why they were blocked off.😊

Thank you so much!

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Thank you for your service!

I was too. USS Oriskany. 71-74. It did suck compared to the other carriers I visited. Had some friends on the Midway and I went aboard to hook up with them to go into Olongapo PI.

One of the volunteers in the CIC explained radar was activated to provide an authentic experience and help visitors see how air and surface detections were made in tandem (he was explaining this to our 12 year old so may have simplified a bit). He also pointed out that Naval Base Coronado was located across the bay with several aircraft carriers and squadrons home porting from there and pointed out proximity to the Mexican border on one of the stations my son sat at.

She was the biggest ship on the planet for her first 10 years. How is that not a super carrier?

@@TPaine1776>> She’s the closest thing to a supercarrier museum. She’s not nearly as big as CV-67 though. Sad there’ll be no true supercarrier museum.

I have serve aboard three aircraft carriers in my twenty years career in the Navy. I served aboard the USS Midway CV-41, USS RANGER CVA-61, and the USS KittyHawk CVA-63, and the Midway was the most liked aircraft carrier that most sailors has loved serving aboard, and she was also highly loved & respected by a lot of international countries that she'd visited. I was a Boiler Tech aboard all three carriers; on the Midway you will learn engineering the hard but the right way with her 12 Babcock & Wilcox 600 psi boilers. The Midway was commissioned back in September 10, 1945 eight days after Japan signing the surrender of WW2 aboard the USS Missouri in Yokosuka Japan. And she might not have been classified as a Super Carrier, but she was a Super Magical Aircraft Carrier that had a thicker hull size than most of the newer class carriers..And it will take you approximately two weeks of touring, just to see the whole entire ship of the USS Midway..But please take a visit to her when you are in the San Diego area, and you won't be disappointed.

@@ehbrownj>> Thank you for your service! I’ve been to the USS Midway museum and it’s amazing! They do a beautiful job. The Midway class was actually built with an armored flight deck (a la the Royal Navy), right?