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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.
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) in at anchor in Casco Bay, Maine (USA), on 25 March 1942, with a motor launch coming alongside. The planes on deck, some with wings folded, include (circa) 15 Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator scout bombers, three Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bombers and 20 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters.
Despite the losses, Wasp continued operations with 27 minutes of the strike. She was scrapped in 1973 after a prestigious career. USS Hancock (CV-19): On 25 November 1944, a fire exploded an incoming kamikaze some 300 ft (91 m) above the ship, but a section of its fuselage landed amidships and burst into flames. On January 21, a plane returning ...
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.
CV-4 Ranger: Ranger (lead ship) 4 June 1934 18 October 1946 12 years, 136 days Scrapped in 1947 [18] CV-5 Yorktown: Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 250 days Sunk in the Battle of Midway in 1942 [19] CV-6 Enterprise: Yorktown: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 8 years, 281 days Scrapped in 1960 [20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ...
Name Hull number Ship class Location Date Cause Arizona: BB-39 Pennsylvania class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Sunk by bombers from aircraft carrier Hiryū: Oklahoma: BB-37 : Nevada class: Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941: Capsized by torpedo bombers from aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga and raised in 1943 but not repaired. Sank 17 May 1947 in a storm while being towed to San Francisco for ...
The service members later returned to their ship, the USS Wasp, it said. The Marines' unit is on routine deployment with the U.S. Navy’s Wasp Amphibious Readiness Group, Navy Cmdr. Timothy ...
McCampbell while serving as a landing signal officer on board USS Wasp during Operation Bowery. He is signalling to a pilot about to take off, May 1942 [3] McCampbell served as a landing signal officer (LSO) from May 1940, surviving the sinking of the carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) by a Japanese submarine near Guadalcanal on September 15, 1942. [4]