Aircraft Carriers: Essex Class

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Crew of Essex Class Carrier USS Princeton pictured at San Diego,June 14th 1947.

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Essex Class Carrier USS Champlain pictured undergoing her SCB 27A Modernisation refit alongside the incomplete United States Lines passenger liner SS United States at Newport News Shipbuiding & Drydock Co Shipyards c1952.

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USS Lake Champlain pictured off Norfolk Navy Yard on June 15th 1945.

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Commissioning Day for USS Shangri-La at Norfolk Navy Yard,September 15th 1944.

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HANCOCK in camo, '44 and modernized in 1957. Also, a view of her in 1968. DFO

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Former home of my ol' mate Don Boyer...USS Bonhomme Richard pictured in the Gulf of Tonkin,March 1967.

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North American FJ-4 Fury launch from USS Lexington...1950's.

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USS Lake Champlain pictured in her final deployment as an Attack Carrier,off Cannes,June 19th 1957.

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A sea weary USS Shangri-La pictured as she prepares to come alongside Casablanca Class Escort Carrier USS Attu to transfer personnel and supplies, apparently this was the first side-by-side underway replenishment conducted by two aircraft carriers,September 3rd 1945.

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USS Valley Forge pictured raising steam as she prepares to depart Trincomalee, Ceylon, after a two-day visit by U.S. Task Force 38, in April 1948. County Class Heavy Cruiser HMS Norfolk is to the right whilst an unidentified Town Class Light Cruiser is to left.