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USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time.
USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy.The ship, the ninth US Navy ship to bear the name, was originally named Oriskany, but was renamed while under construction in honor of the previous Wasp (CV-7), which was sunk 15 September 1942.
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS ... Wasp: Essex: 24 November 1943 1 July 1972 28 years, 220 days Scrapped in 1973 [35] CV-19
USS Wasp (SP-1159), a steel-hulled motorboat, was leased by the U.S. Navy and performed patrol duties in 1917; USS Wasp (CV-7), laid down in 1936, was an aircraft carrier that saw action in World War II until sunk by Japanese submarine I-19 in September 1942; USS Wasp (CV-18) an aircraft carrier launched in 1943 and served until 1972
Kinkaid?) Two carriers, 176 aircraft; TF-18 with USS Wasp (CV-7) had been sent to refuel: USS Saratoga (CV-3) 74 aircraft; USS Enterprise (CV-6) 80 aircraft; damaged by 3 bombs from Shōkaku and Zuikaku but reinforced Henderson Field with her aircraft. IJN Main Body (Nagumo) Three carriers of CarDiv1, 177 aircraft IJN Shōkaku (CV) launched two ...
Task Force 16 (TF 16) was one of the most storied task forces in the United States Navy, a major participant in a number of the most important battles of the Pacific War.. In July 1941, USS Wasp (CV-7) drew the assignment of ferrying army aircraft to Iceland because of a lack of British aircraft to cover the American landings.
The fleet carrier USS Wasp could carry up to 100 aircraft and, from her flight decks, with 11 of her own Wildcat fighters on patrol overhead, 47 Spitfire fighters took off for Malta in April 1942. The escort carrier USS Liscome Bay could operate 27 aircraft when on patrol or providing close combat support but, when the decks were packed, she ...
On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.