Escort Carriers: Casablanca Class
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Casablanca Class Escort Carrier USS Thetis Bay.....1958.
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A view from astern showing her mods to take MARINES via helos to enemy beaches. OK b4 the advent of hand held SAMS......maybe. DFO
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Casablanca Class Escort Carrier USS Kalinin Bay pictured arriving at San Diego, on November 25th 1944 for repair of damages received in the Battle off Samar a month earlier.
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Grumman TBM-3 Avenger from Composite Squadron 84 (VC 84), pictured on the catapult aboard Casablanca Class Escort Carrier USS Makin Island on April 3rd 1945.
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Flying a Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull scout-observation aircraft, Lieutenant Commander Lex L. Black, Commanding Officer of squadron VGS-1, makes Escort Carrier USS Long Island's 2000th landing, April 20th 1942.
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A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt pictured being loaded aboard Casablanca Class Escort Carrier USS Natoma Bay at Pearl Harbor on June 1st 1944.
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LPH USS Thetis Bay (originally a Casablanca Class CVE), pictured as she transits the Panama Canal in 1963.
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The wreck of USS Ommaney Bay has been found...https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1 ... 77538?s=20
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Sunken World War II carrier resting place identified 78 years later
The wreckage site of a World War II U.S. Navy escort carrier was identified July 10, 2023, by the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology branch, bringing a semblance of closure to the crew of a ship that dipped beneath the waves 78 years ago.
See - https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... ars-later/ - LFT
The wreckage site of a World War II U.S. Navy escort carrier was identified July 10, 2023, by the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology branch, bringing a semblance of closure to the crew of a ship that dipped beneath the waves 78 years ago.
See - https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... ars-later/ - LFT
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