Editing Midway-class aircraft carrier (section)

===1950s===
None of the class went on war cruises during the [[Korean War]]. As the three ships became essential to the Navy's strategic nuclear weapons role in Europe, they were mainly deployed to the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]]. Until the availability of the ''Forrestal'' class, they were the premier commands sought by senior naval aviators. They were "admiral makers" for many of their commanding officers including future [[Chief of Naval Operations]] [[George Whelan Anderson Jr.]] and [[David L. McDonald]].

During the 1950s, ''Midway'' and ''Franklin D. Roosevelt'' underwent the [[Ship Characteristics Board|SCB-110]] modernization program (similar to [[SCB-125]] for the ''Essex'' class), which added [[angled flight deck]]s, [[steam catapult]]s, mirror landing systems, and other modifications that allowed them to operate a new generation of larger and heavier naval aircraft. ''Coral Sea'' had a variant modernization program called SCB-110A with an angled deck 3 degrees greater than the other two.<ref name=tbg/><ref>Friedman, ''U.S. Aircraft Carriers'', p. 300</ref>