The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Brooklyn (CL-40) and the escort carrier USS Suwannee (CVE-27) underway in the Atlantic Ocean with the amphibious convoy, en route to North Africa, in early November 1942.
The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Brooklyn (CL-40) and the escort carrier USS Suwannee (CVE-27) underway in the Atlantic Ocean with the amphibious convoy, en route to North Africa, in early November 1942.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Suwannee (CVE-27) at anchor in Kwajalein harbour, Marshall Islands, on 7 February 1944
A U.S. Navy General Motors FM-2 Wildcat is catapulted from the escort carrier USS Core (CVE-13) in the North Atlantic on 12 April 1944.
A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of Escort Fighter Squadron 27 (VGF-27), nicknamed Rosenblatt's Reply, on board the escort carrier USS Suwanee (ACV-27), circa in late 1942 or early 1943.
A U.S. Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of Escort Fighter Squadron 27 (VGF-27), nicknamed Rosenblatt's Reply, on board the escort carrier USS Suwanee (ACV-27), circa in late 1942 or early 1943.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84) loading planes at Naval Air Station North Island, California, circa on 14 August 1945. Note USS Ranger (CV-4) docked in the background.
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-39) in New York harbour, following her last overhaul. In the left background is the British escort carrier HMS Biter (D97). 23 May 1942
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Charger (CVE-30) and the destroyer USS Schoeder (DD-501) docked at Norfolk, Virginia (USA), circa early 1943. Note 127mm-51 gun on Charger's stern.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) loading Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from a barge, circa in 1944.
USS Helena (CL-50), a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, fires her main guns in combat. (1942, colorized)
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Pensacola (CA-24) bringing in U.S. Marine Corps reinfocements to Midway on 24 June 1942.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Altamaha (CVE-18) transporting U.S. Army Air Forces North American P-51 Mustang fighters off San Francisco, California (USA), on 16 July 1943.
Bab el Mandeb - Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower been in the region also brings cruiser USS Philippine Sea and likely destroyers USS Gravely and USS Stethem to the party.
The latter will likely be released to escort ships in the strait.
Grumman Avenger in the elevator of the escort carrier USS Long Island, 1942.
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USS South Dakota and USS Alabama underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1943; photo taken from HMS King George V
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The Navy proposes to decommission the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown and two Independence-class littoral combat ships, the USS Jackson and USS Mo...
www.stripes.comThe U.S. Navy battleship USS New York (BB-34) and auxiliary aircraft carrier USS Charger (ACV-30) at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia (USA), 11 August 1942.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Santee (ACV-29) at anchor, 16 October 1942. Note the location of the ship's main machinery smoke stacks on the side of the flight deck aft.
U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1D Corsairs of Marine Fighter Squadron 312 (VMF-312) are about to be launched from the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Hollandia (CVE-97) off Okinawa, Japan, in April 1945.
View of the Soviet ship "Murmansk", formerly light cruiser, USS "Milwaukee", loaned to the Soviet Navy, in 1944.
A U.S. Navy Ryan FR-1 Fireball from fighter squadron VF-41 landing on the escort carrier USS Bairoko (CVE-115) just before the nose gear collapsed, 13 March 1946.
A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of Fighting Squadron VF-17 landing on the deck of the escort carrier USS Charger (CVE-30), probably during carrier qualifications. 01/02/1943
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