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    USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the ninth US Navy...
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  • sold in 1919 USS Wasp (SP-1159), a steel-hulled motorboat, was leased by the U.S. Navy and performed patrol duties in 1917 USS Wasp (CV-7), laid down...
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    USS Wasp (LHD-1) is a United States Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, and the lead ship of her class. She is the tenth USN vessel to bear the...
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    carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) and sank with the loss of 176 crew. The ships had been undertaking amphibious exercises in the Atlantic, with Wasp practicing...
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    USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the...
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    Ulithi. In the row were USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19), and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). After the Third Fleet...
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  • USS Essex (CV-9) USS Wasp (CV-18) USS Yorktown (CV-10) USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) USS Langley (CVL-27) USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) USN Task Group 38.2: USS...
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    historic ships and historic battles. Likewise, Wasp's name was changed from Oriskany after the original USS Wasp (CV-7) was sunk in September 1942 in the South...
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    USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She...
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    USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name...
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    carrier Wasp (CV-18) in October 1943. Arriving at Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Yard near Boston, Massachusetts, Sprague took command of Wasp where she...
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    USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to...
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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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    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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    USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s...
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  • from July 1953 to July of 1955, he served as a Lt. J.G. aboard of the USS Wasp (CV-18). He was admitted at the South Carolina Bar in 1956. Shortly after...
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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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    Casablanca. Brassey's. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1-57488-722-8. USS Wasp Veterans (1999). U. S. S. Wasp CV 18. Turner Publishing Company. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-56311-404-5...
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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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    30°02′33″N 87°00′23″W / 30.04250°N 87.00639°W / 30.04250; -87.00639 USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34), (/ɔːrˈɪskəniː/ or /əˈrɪskəniː/), was one of the few Essex-class...
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    USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned...
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    the USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Leyte (CV-32), USS Antietam (CV-36), USS Lake Champlain (CV-39), and USS Tarawa (CV-40)...
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    Carrier Photo Index: USS Wasp (CV-7)". www.navsource.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015. "CV-8 Brief History – World...
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    based on the Essex Class aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) starting in early February 1945. Flying from the Wasp on 16 February 1945 as part of Task Force...
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    USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) was the second of three Midway-class aircraft carriers. To her crew, she was known as "Swanky Franky," "Foo-De-Roo...
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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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    miles (4.8 km) from the prime recovery ship, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18), bringing an end to the Gemini program to make way for the Apollo...
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    Seventeen (CVG-17) embarked on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42): Carrier Air Group Eighteen (CVG-18) embarked on USS Wasp (CV-18): Longstep was an early attempt...
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  • Arthur W. Radford commanded the division in 1944. On 2 June 1952, USS Wasp (CV-18) relieved Tarawa at Gibraltar and joined Carrier Division 6 in the...
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