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 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 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 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.
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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The U.S. Navy auxiliary aircraft carrier USS Long Island (AVG-1) at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia (USA), 18 October 1941.
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 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. 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 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.
A U.S. Navy seaplane tender USS Casco (AVP-12) docking at Dutch Harbor, Alaska (USA), circa in 1943.
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 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.
USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Texas (BB-35), USS Decatur (DD-341), USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), and unidentified tug at Pier 7, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on 19 October 1937.
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 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.
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 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.
Escort Carrier USS Barnes transporting P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes across the Pacific, July 1 1943