The third Midway, CVB-41, was commissioned Sept. 10, 1945, and initially assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. The ship was redesignated CVA-41 on Oct. 1, 1952. In December 1954, Midway began a world cruise, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope for Taiwan, where she joined the Seventh Fleet for operations in the Western Pacific. She was out of commission for overhaul following her Seventh Fleet duties until September 1957. When Midway again sailed for the Far East in March 1965, her aircraft were prepared for combat operations, and from mid-April flew strikes against military and logistics installations in North and South Vietnam. Midway made three Vietnam cruises between 1965 and 1973. In 1975, she was reclassified to CV-41. Midway continued as the cornerstone of the Seventh Fleet, forward deployed in Japan until she was decommissioned in April 1992.
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