Escort Carriers: Bogue Class

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Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Nassau pictured off Mare Island Navy Yard,April 29th 1944.

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A large number of captured Japanese aircraft depicted, being transported to the U.S. for evaluation by Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Barnes.Transported from Yokosuka, during her transit to Norfolk via Alameda and the Panama Canal,early November,1945.

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Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Nassau pictured at Puget Sound Navy Yard,September 25th 1942.

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Grumman F6F-5(N) pictured on Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Block Island,February 4th 1945.

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Recovering a crashed TBM from the catwalk of Escort Carrier USS Bogue, June 1944.

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Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Nassau pictured sporting her Measure 33, Design 2A camouflage livery off Mare Island Naval Shipyard on April 29th 1944.Launched on April 4th 1942,she was one of thirty-seven Tacoma-built C3 CVEs, of which twenty-six went to the Royal Navy.

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BOGUE in 1945......... Wind over the deck, thanks to some BIG radial engines. DFO

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Launch day on July 15th 1943 for Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Sunset at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Yards Washington; transferred under the UK Lend Lease Agreement and redesignated as HMS Thane (Ruler Class),she operated in the North Atlantic protecting convoys and ferrying aircraft for use in the European Theater. On January 15th 1945, while ferrying aircraft in the Irish Sea, she was torpedoed by the Submarine U-1172 and severely damaged, losing her starboard aft 5 inch gun and its sponson, disabling propulsion, and losing 10 men. Taken to Gare Loch in the Firth of Clyde, southwest Scotland, she was examined, declared a constructive total loss and decommissioned to reserve. She was returned to United States custody while in the United Kingdom on May 12th. Determined to be of no use to the USN, she was slated for disposal in October; and she was subsequently scrapped.

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Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Block Island pictured as she arrives at Belfast, Ulster, with a load of Army Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters on September 7th 1943. The aircraft were unloaded in a record 14 hours.

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An unidentified Bogue Class Escort Carrier pictured in Dry Dock No2 under construction at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on May 13th, 1942.