Intrepid (CV-11) - NHHC
2022年2月18日 · Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) was commissioned on 16 August 1943 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Virginia, with Captain Thomas L. Sprague in command. After shakedown training in the Caribbean, Intrepid returned to Virginia, briefly, before she steamed to the U.S. west coast ultimately arriving at Pearl Harbor …
Intrepid IV (CV-11) - NHHC
Intrepid recommissioned at San Francisco 9 February 1952 and got underway 12 March for Norfolk. She decommissioned in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard 9 April 1952 for conversion to a modern attack aircraft carrier. Re-classified CVA-11 1 …
USS Intrepid (CV-11/CVA-11/CVS-11) - NHHC
USS Intrepid (CV-11) was launched 26 April 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs. John Howard Hoover; and commissioned 16 August, Captain Thomas L. Sprague in command. After training in the Caribbean USS Intrepid (CV-11) departed Norfolk 3 December 1943 for San Francisco, then to Hawaii. She arrived Pearl …
Carrier Deployments During the Vietnam Conflict - NHHC
2016年8月3日 · The following listing covers port visits for carriers (CV, CVA, CVAN, CVS) deployed to Vietnam during the conflict. Sources for the information are listed in the text. Compiled in August 2003 by the Naval Aviation History Branch, Naval Warfare Division, Naval History and Heritage Command. NOTE: THE LIST OF RECORDS BELOW ARE THE ONLY …
Yorktown (CV-5) - NHHC
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned at Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, with Captain Ernest D. McWhorter in command. After shakedown training that took the aircraft carrier to the Virgin Islands, Haiti, Guantanamo Bay, and Cristobal in the Panama Canal Zone, she returned to Norfolk for subsequent repairs in the fall of 1938. After operating …
Essex (CV-9) - NHHC
USS Essex (CV-9), lead aircraft carrier of her class, was commissioned on 31 December 1942 with Captain Donald B. Duncan in command. Following an accelerated shakedown cruise, Essex steamed for the Pacific in May 1943. On 31 August, Essex was designated flagship of Task Force 14, and on 5–6 October, her aircraft attacked Wake Island as part of Allied carrier operations …
Midway (CVB-41) - NHHC
2024年6月20日 · Named for the U.S. Navy’s landmark victory at the Battle of Midway, USS Midway (CVB-41) was commissioned 10 September 1945 with Captain Joseph F. Bolger in command. She began her service with the Navy just eight days after the instrument of surrender was signed by representatives of the Allied and Japanese governments onboard USS Missouri …
H-026-3 Truk Raid 1944 - NHHC
The U.S. Force consisted of four new Essex-class carriers––Yorktown, Essex Intrepid, and Bunker Hill––plus Enterprise and four light carriers Belleau Wood, Cabot, Monterey, and Cowpens, along with more than 500 aircraft. In addition, six new fast battleships, ten cruisers and 28 destroyers rounded out the force.
Aircraft Carriers - NHHC
The history of the U.S. Navy’s use of naval vessels to launch and recover aircraft dates back to 14 November 1910 when American civilian pilot Eugene Ely flew his Curtiss pusher airplane off a specifically built platform on the deck of cruiser Birmingham (Scout Cruiser No. 2) in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On 18 January 1911, Ely landed on a platform built on the quarterdeck of …
Fall and Winter 1944 - NHHC
A Japanese Yokosuka P1Y "Frances" aircraft made an attack on USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) but was thwarted. USS LST-472 and USS LST-738 also came under attack and were lost after being hit by Kamikazes. Collage of images: 80-G-270983-84-86: USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79), December 15, 1944, being attacked by a Japanese Yokosuka P1Y "Frances" aircraft ...