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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.
English: Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas--Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner of Rockford, Illinois, WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), Class: 43-W-6, takes a look around before sending her plane streaking down the runway at the Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas, ca. 1930–1975. Note: Almost certainly this dates from 1942–1944, part of project of ...
Fate: Disposed by Navy sale on July 2, 1973 Class: Essex-class Date commissioned: May 25, 1943 USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific ...
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.
Cornelia Clark Fort (February 5, 1919 – March 21, 1943) was an American aviator who became famous for being part of two aviation-related events. The first occurred while conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when she was the first United States pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The WAFS and the WFTD were combined to form the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). [55] Love continued with the program as executive in charge of WASP ferrying operations. The formal announcement combining WAFS and WFTD took place on August 20, 1943. [56] WASP adopted a patch in 1943 that featured the female gremlin Fifinella. [1]
Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was one of the first American female military pilots [1] and the subject of a well-known photograph, sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder.