Aircraft Carriers: Essex Class

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BON HOMME RICHARD with "Spads" on deck...a GR8 WARbird!!!! DFO

[Brian James]

Worked with this ol' girl a few times..Essex Class Carrier USS Oriskany pictured at Sasebo in 1952.

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Launched on this day (31 July) in 1942, the first of the great ESSEX class CVs. The U.S. taxpayer got his/her money's worth out of this very capable aircraft carrier design.

$ad to say that is NOT true of the USS ED$EL (aka Ford)...... DFO

[Brian James]

USS Intrepid pictured entering the deperming (degaussing) station at Norfolk Navy Yard on September 11th 1943......*Note the outline of the ship's waterline painted on the flight deck.

[Brian James]

USS Bon Homme Richard pictured off Point Loma on October 10th 1968.

[Brian James]

Essex Class Carrier USS Intrepid pictured as she enters Rotterdam on July 14th 1958.

[Brian James]

Essex Class Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard pictured c October 1955.

[Brian James]

USS Essex pictured in May 1943.

[designeraccd]

A really neat view of YORKTOWN in July, '44! DFO

[Brian James]

USS Valley Forge pictured in her role as an ASW Carrier in 1963.