Aircraft Carriers (USN)

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U.S.S. Langley Carrier Planes On Deck Naval Ship RPPC Real Photo Postcard A885
USS Langley Navy Aircraft Carrier Photo Postcard

USS Langley (CV-1)

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This lot features the aircraft carrier Lexington at the shipyard in Quincy, Mass. ready for its initial voyage measures 10 x 8 dated Oct. 2, 1925

USS Lexington (CV-2)

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USS Saratoga (CV-3)

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Canal Zone Panama near Pedro Miguel Locks ~ Fennessey 37 postcard ~ USS Ranger
Uss Ranger Navy Ship Aircraft Carrier Postcard Rppc Official Navy Photo
USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first U.S. Navy ship to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier. Ranger's keel was laid down Sept. 26 1931 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., launched Feb. 25, 1933 and commissioned June 4, 1934 at Norfolk Navy Yard.

USS Ranger (CV-4)

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U.S.S.Yorktown Carrier Naval Ship RPPC Real Photo Postcard Unposted A876
80-G-462079: USS Yorktown (CV 5), under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding, Company, Virginia. Photographed July 10, 1936. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Another view of Yorktown, possibly taken during preliminary standardization trials, July 1937.

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class carrier built for the US Navy during the 1930's. She was the seventh USN vessel to bear that name and is called "The Big E" nickname. (wikipedia.image) 11.2020 (Close-Up Island Tower)
U.S.S. Enterprise Carrier Naval Ship RPPC Real Photo Postcard Unposted A871

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

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U.S.S Naval Ship Carrier Planes On Deck RPPC Real Photo Postcard Unposted A868
“USS Wasp (CV-7) in port, with a motor launch coming alongside. Planes on deck, some with wings folded, include SB2U scout bombers and F4F-4 fighters.” The photo was taken in Casco Bay, ME, on March...
USS Wasp mortally struck by Japanese torpedo, 15 September 1942.

USS Wasp (CV-7)

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U.S.S. Hornet Naval Ship RPPC Real Photo Postcard Unposted A865
“Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter of VF-15 being shot from the hangar deck catapult of the Fleet Carrier USS Hornet (Essex-class) (CV-12) during training in Chesapeake Bay, February 12, 1944. The Hornet...
USS Hornet CV-8

USS Hornet (CV-8)

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USS Essex (CV-9)

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“USS Yorktown (CV-10) transiting the Panama Canal, bound for the Pacific combat zone, circa 11 July 1943. Note Grumman TBF-1 Avenger and Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft on deck. SBDs carry markings...

USS Yorktown (CV-10)

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The Deadliest Night Fighter in Korea
USS Intrepid (CVS-11)
Top views of USS Intrepid after SCB-27C (left) and SCB-125 (right).

USS Intrepid (CV-11)

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Old Vintage Print 1952 Carrier Ship Wasp Hornet America Navy Engineering 20th
Grumman TBF-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron Two (VT-2) pass over USS Hornet (CV-12) in August 1944. Source
On 11 September 1953, after finishing SCB-27A modernization at the New York Naval Shipyard Essex class aircraft carrier, USS Hornet CV-12…

USS Hornet (CV-12)

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"USS Franklin (CV-13) is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on 14 October 1943. Note...
"USS Franklin (CV-13) arrives at New York Navy Yard for repair of battle damage, circa 28 April 1945. Photographed looking aft, showing her burned-out after flight deck, with Manhattan beyond." Source
The most-heavily damaged fleet carrier to survive the war, the USS Franklin approaches New York, April 24, 1945

USS Franklin (CV-13)

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USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14) - Apollo 16 Recovery
CVS-14 USS Ticonderoga Patch Apollo 17
USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)

USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)

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USS Randolph, 1945
USS Randolph CV-15
USS Randolph after a kamikaze attack, March 11, 1945

USS Randolph (CV-15)

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The launching of the USS Lexington (Essex-class) at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 26 Sep 1942. Note that the island structure is yet to be built.
USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16), nicknamed "The Blue Ghost", is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built during World War II for the United States Navy. Description from starbase400.org. I searched for this on bing.com/images
717 Likes, 4 Comments - Don’t Give Up The Ship (@museumships) on Instagram: “On 8 November 1991, Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-16 was decommissioned for a…”

USS Lexington (CV-16)

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Raid on Tokyo, pictures taken from USS Bunker Hill CV-17 in 1945 LIFE Magazine - W. Eugene Smith Photographer
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Kamikaze Survivor: USS Bunker Hill CV-17 in 30 Photos

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)

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$9.56 - Uss Wasp Cv-18 Cva-18 Cvs-18 Carrier Attack Ship Patch #ebay #Collectibles
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USS Wasp (CV-18)

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Fighting Hannah: USS Hancock (CV-19)
U.S.S. HANCOCK CVA-19

USS Hancock (CV-19)

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USS Bennington CV-20
USS Bennington CV-20
USS Bennington CV-20

USS Bennington (CV-20)

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“USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway in October 1964, during exercise Steelpike I.” USS Boxer was one of the few Essex class carriers not modified with an angled deck after WWII. She was instead experimented...
USS Boxer (CV 21), fish-eye view of the carrier while moored to a buoy in the harbor of Yokosuka, Japan, 12 June 1953. At the time of the photograph, Boxer was in her fourth tour during the Korean War and at that date chalked up her 58,000 landing, which was then a record for a US Navy carrier.
USS Boxer (CV-21) F-51 Mustangs - USS Boxer (CV-21) - Wikipedia

USS Boxer (CV-21)

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USS Independence Ship Airplane Flag Navy Military WWII RPPC Photograph Postcard
USS Independence
Elements of Task Group 38.2 underway from Ulithi on 30 December 1944. Aircraft carriers are (front to back) INDEPENDENCE CVL-22, HORNET CV-12 and LEXINGTON CV-16. Cruisers at right are SAN JUAN CL-54 followed by CruDiv 17 ships. -U.S. Navy photo in NARA record group 80-G-300093

USS Independence (CVL-22)

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October 24, 1944 The USS Reno (CL-96) is approaching to help combat the fires on the USS Princeton (CVL-23) which has been hit by a 250lb bomb.
USS Princeton off Seattle, Washington, United States, 3 Jan 1944
USS Princeton (CVL-23)

USS Princeton (CVL-23)

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USS Belleau Woods
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USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)

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The Mighty Moo: USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
USS Cowpens
USS Cowpens CVL-25, circa 1943. cowpens served in the Pacific and was placed in the reserve fleet post war. She was scrapped in 1959.

USS Cowpens (CVL-25)

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