The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) at San Francisco, California (USA), on 8 April 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 21. Several Lockheed PV patrol bombers are carried on deck.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) at San Francisco, California (USA), on 8 April 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 21. Several Lockheed PV patrol bombers are carried on deck.
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.
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 escort carrier USS Suwannee (CVE-27) at anchor in Kwajalein harbour, Marshall Islands, on 7 February 1944
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) loading Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from a barge, circa in 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.
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.
A deckload of U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolt fighters on the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Casablanca (CVE-55) in 16 July 1945.
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.
The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Casablanca (ACV-55), at right, about to be launched at Henry J. Kaiser's shipyard, Vancouver, Washington (USA), on 5 April 1943.
A U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat of VMF(N)-511 is launched from the deck of the escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-106) off Okinawa on 10 May 1945.
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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A North American PBJ-1D Mitchell bomber of U.S. Marine Corps bombing squadron VMB-611 spotted on the deck of the escort carrier USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) during transport area in the Pacific, August 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.
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.
A U.S. Navy Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull of Scouting Squadron 201 (VS-201) parked on the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Long Island (AVG-1) on 16 December 1941.
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. escort carrier USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters of composite squadron VC-5 during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944.
Maintenance on U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers of composite squadron VC-22 on the light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22), 1943.
A Grumman JRF Goose amphibian is hoisted on board the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Long Island (ACV-1) from a seaplane wrecking derrick (YSD), off Palmyra Island, 19 April 1943.
On this day in 1942, a newly commissioned carrier, the USS Hornet, and its escorting ships sailed from San Francisco Bay. On the carrier’s flight deck were a different type of aircraft—16 B-25B Mitchell army bombers. Destination: Tokyo.
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Escort carrier USS Altamaha transporting a deck load of P-51A Mustang fighters has just left Alameda, passed under the San Francisco Bay Bridge (background) and steams toward the Golden Gate, 16 Jul 1943
The U.S. Navy seaplane tender USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 14 April 1942. She has a Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina and a Vought OS2U-2 Kingfisher on the seaplane deck, aft.