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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.
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-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 143 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 [21] CV-8 Hornet: Yorktown: 20 October 1941 27 October 1942 1 year, 7 days Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942 [22] [23] CV-9 Essex: Essex (lead ship) 31 December 1942 30 June 1969 26 years, 171 days ...
USS Wasp (CV-7) USN support for Guadalcanal (20 August 1942) USN: USS Long Island (CVE-1) launched first aircraft to reach Henderson Field; USN/IJN Battle of the Eastern Solomons (23–25 August 1942) IJN Operation Ka US Task Forces 61 (Fletcher? Kinkaid?) Two carriers, 176 aircraft; TF-18 with USS Wasp (CV-7) had been sent to refuel:
Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [19] CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an Aircraft Carrier by October 1936 and had been converted to a seaplane tender Ship Named Air Groups [h ...
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
Washington conducted training along the United States East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico until March 1942. [41] On 25 March 1942, Wilcox became commander of Task Force 39, consisting of Washington, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), the heavy cruisers USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) and USS Wichita (CA-45), and eight destroyers.