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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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Essex-class aircraft carrier (redirect from USS Reprisal (CV-35))
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 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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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 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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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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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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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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carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) from November 1944 to February 1945. VB-81 was redesignated VA-13A in November 1946 while the squadron was embarked on USS Princeton (CV-37)...
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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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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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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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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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toll than any other maritime disaster. In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the USS Forrestal was floating on the water not too far from the Vietnamese coast...
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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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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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USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to bear that name, but the fourth...
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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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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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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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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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River, North Carolina; with HMR(L)-264 aboard the USS Boxer (CV-21) and later the USS Wasp (CV-18); again with HMR(L)-262, Marine Aircraft Group 26,...
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