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The fifth USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the fourth and final member of the Forrestal class of conventionally powered supercarriers . She entered service in 1959, with much of her early years spent in the Mediterranean Fleet.
Birmingham attempts to fight fires aboard Princeton during Battle of Leyte Gulf. Completed in the course of 1943, and coming into service with the first eight of the Essex-class carriers, the nine Independence-class ships made up a vital component of the Fast Carrier Task Force, which carried the Navy's offensive through the central and western Pacific from November 1943 through August 1945.
The Forrestal class was the first completed class of "supercarriers" of the Navy, so called because of their then-extraordinarily high tonnage (75,000 tons, 25% larger than the post-World War II-era Midway class), full integration of the angled deck, very large island, and most importantly their extremely strong air wing (80–100 jet aircraft, compared to 65–75 for the Midway class and ...
Independence: 25 February 1943 24 October 1944 1 year, 242 days Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 [11] CVL-24 Belleau Wood: Independence: 31 March 1943 13 January 1947 3 years, 288 days Scrapped in 1960 [11] CVL-25 Cowpens: Independence: 28 May 1943 13 January 1947 3 years, 230 days Scrapped in 1960 [11] CVL-26 Monterey: Independence: 17 ...
The Independence replied: "You are the most beautiful ship in the world." [7] In 2022, the Amerigo Vespucci sailed by the American aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, which saluted the ship and commented: "You are still, after 60 years, the most beautiful ship in the world." [8] [unreliable source] [9]
The U.S. Navy conventional-powered attack aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVA-62), and her embarked air wing (CVW-7), underway during their 15 October 1975 - 29 April 1976 deployment to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
USS Independence CV-62; USS Bunker Hill CG-52; USS Mobile Bay CG-53; USS Curts FFG-38; USS McClusky FFG-41; F-14A of VF-154 while attached to CVW-5 in 1994. This aircraft is flying over Mount Suribachi in Japan.
The only Allied carriers lost to a deck hit was the American Independence-class light carrier, USS Princeton and Casablanca-class escort carrier USS St. Lo (CVE-63). Indeed, many light and escort carriers were unarmoured, with no protection on the hangar or flight deck, and thus they fared poorly against deck hits.