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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 Yorktown (CV-10) damaged by a bomb; USS Wasp (CV-18) damaged by a bomb; USS Franklin (CV-13) damaged by two bombs; USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) 15 carriers total in 4 task groups; IJN: IJN Amagi (CV) damaged by bombs while at anchor in the Inland Sea; IJN Katsuragi (CV) damaged by bombs while at anchor in the Inland Sea; IJN Ryuho (CVL) damaged ...
American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics Congressional Research Service; Louisiana State University's statistical summary of major American wars; Washington Post database of all U.S. service-member casualties Archived 2006-10-12 at the Wayback Machine; CNN list of U.S. Casualties in Iraq since 2003.
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 ...
List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy Hull no. Name Image Class Commissioned Decommissioned Service life Status Ref. CV-1 Langley: Langley : 20 March 1922 27 February 1942 19 years, 344 days Sunk near Cilacap, Java in 1942 [13] [14] [15] CV-2 Lexington: Lexington (lead ship) 14 December 1927 8 May 1942 14 years, 145 days
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 service members later returned to their ship, the USS Wasp, it said. ... at around 16:00, two US citizen military personnel in civilian clothes were physically attacked by a group of 15 people ...
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.