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    USS Bennington (CV/CVA/CVS-20) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1952 to 1970. She...
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  • took possession of Wake Island during the Spanish–American War. USS Bennington (CV-20), was an aircraft carrier of World War II and decommissioned in...
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  • CV20 (redirect from CV-20)
    CV20, CV-20, or variation may refer to: USS Bennington (CV-20) was a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that was in commission from 1944 through 1946...
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    Hodder & Stoughton. p. 101. ISBN 0-340-56685-X. "AIR GROUPS – USS BENNINGTON". www.uss-bennington.org. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved...
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  • movie. USS Bennington (CV-20) USS Finch (DE-328) USS Lansing (DE-388) USS Brister (DE-327) USS Taluga (AO-62) USS Manatee (AO-58) USS Hamul (AD-20) USS Fletcher...
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    USS Ticonderoga (CV-14): V USS Randolph (CV-15): L USS Lexington (CV-16): H USS Wasp (CV-18): X USS Hancock (CV-19): U USS Bennington (CV-20): TT USS Monterey (CVL-26):...
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    at the Wayback Machine skyhawk.org. Retrieved: 1 October 2012. "USS Bennington (CV-20)." Archived 16 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine Navysite. Retrieved:...
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    awarded the Silver Star. He later commanded the carriers USS Bairoko (CVE-115) and USS Bennington (CV-20). Raborn was a rear admiral when he was appointed,...
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    The USS Bennington (CV-20) was repaired with a badly damaged flight deck from Typhoon Cobra. Some of the Ulithi repair depot ships and crafts: USS AFDB-2...
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    typhoon-battered USS Bennington (CV-20). The job consisted of rebuilding the forward section of her flight deck and required assistance from USS Basilan (AG-68)...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she...
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  • USS Essex (CV-9) USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) USS Randolf (CV-15) USS Hancock (CV-19) USS Bennington (CV-20) USS Monterey (CV-26) USS Bataan (CVL-29) USS Jacinto...
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    USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship...
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    carriers USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Hancock (CV-19), USS Bennington (CV-20), and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)...
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    USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Hancock was the fourth US Navy...
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  • 1945. Flying F4U Corsairs, the VBF-1 squadron was assigned to the USS Bennington (CV-20) in the Pacific on 17 June 1945, where it was based for the remainder...
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  • 1944 during World War II and was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CV-20). CVG-82 consisted of Fighting Squadron 82, flying the Grumman F6F...
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    intended to allow the World War II-era carriers to operate jet aircraft. USS Oriskany, laid up incomplete at the conclusion of World War II, served as...
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    the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3)....
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    BT BU BV BW BY BZ C CA CB CC CD CE CF CG CH CI CJ CK CM CN CP CQ CS CT CU CV CW CY CZ D DA DB DC DD DE DF DH DN DP DR DT DV DW DX DZ E EA EB EC ED EE EF...
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    USS Wasp USS Hancock ‡ USS Bennington USS Boxer ‡ USS Bon Homme Richard USS Leyte ‡ USS Kearsarge ‡ USS Antietam ‡ USS Princeton ‡ USS Shangri-La ‡ USS Lake...
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    battle. The World War II era aircraft carriers USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Oriskany and USS Bennington (CV-20) were named after the battles of the Saratoga...
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    carriers USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Hancock (CV-19), USS Bennington (CV-20), and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)...
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  • carriers USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Hancock (CV-19), USS Bennington (CV-20), and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)...
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    chaired the board of inquiry into the May 26, 1954 disaster on the USS Bennington (CV-20). In 1955 Republic Pictures released The Eternal Sea, a biopic taken...
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    larger squadron when it absorbed VS-25. On 20 February 1964, VS-38 deployed on board the USS Bennington (CVS-20) as part of CVSG-59. During this deployment...
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    The second USS San Juan (CL-54), and the first to be named for the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was an Atlanta-class light cruiser of the United States...
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    Cemetery is the USS Bennington Monument which commemorates the deaths of 62 sailors in a boiler explosion aboard USS Bennington (PG-4). Bennington, which had...
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    USS Philippine Sea (CV/CVA/CVS-47, AVT-11) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, and the first ship to be named for the...
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    carriers USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Hancock (CV-19), USS Bennington (CV-20), and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)...
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