USS ''Midway'' may refer to the following ships of the

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: *, which was named ''Oritani'' and then ''Tyree'' before being chartered as a general auxiliary in 1942, renamed to ''Panay'' in 1943, and returned to its owner in 1946 *, which was an

escort carrier The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (U.S. hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slower type of aircraf ...

commissioned in 1943, renamed ''St. Lo'' one year later, and sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf shortly afterward *, which is an

aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering carrier-based aircraft, shipborne aircraft. Typically it is the ...

commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1992. It was donated as a

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and resides in San Diego, California.

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