Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
โ WW2 โข cold war Naval Aviation USS Wasp was the 7th USN aircraft carrier, built to use remaining treaty tonnage. She operated in the Atlantic and was sunk at Guadalcanal.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
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.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
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Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
Length: 739'. Beam: 80'9". Draft: 20'. Speed: 30 kts. Armament: 8 5"/38, 16 1.1in AA, 24 .50cal machine guns, 84 planes. Complement: 2,167. Built at Bethlehem, Quincy, and commissioned 25 April 1940. was sunk by Japanese submarine 15 Sep 42 while convoying the 7th Marine Regiment from Espiritu Santo to reinforce Guadalcanal.
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CV-7 was named to commemorate the service of seven American warships that had borne the mame: sloop-of-war sloop-of-war side-wheel gunboat armed yacht. NS098680001 under sail. Note the Grand Union Flag. (Image submitted by Robert Hurst.) NS020740: A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.
Wasp VIII (CV7)
The expedition crew aboard the late Paul G. Allen's research vessel (R/V) Petrel discovered wreckage from USS Wasp (CV 7), which was sunk in 1942. Download. Download.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
1940 - 1942 Wasp (CV-7) anchored at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "dressed ship" for Navy Day on 27 October 1940. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph, NH 43460. Any of numerous winged.
[943 x 1181]USS Wasp (CV7) in dry dock, in early 1942, at the Norfolk
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. As a reduced-size version of the Yorktown -class aircraft.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
The 33 PS was until the 6. August 1941 on bord of the USS Wasp. last update 7. March 2007. . 22. August 1941 - 20. October 1941.
Aircraft Carrier USS Wasp CV7, Norfolk June 1942, bow view World War
The late Paul Allen's research team announced they found the wreckage of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) in the Coral Sea. The team aboard R/V Petrel found the Wasp wreck nearly 14,000 feet below the sea's surface.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
While supporting the forces on Guadalcanal on September 15, 1942, USS Wasp (CV-7) was torpedoed by Japanese submarine, I-19, later scuttled by USS Lansdowne (DD-456). Also damaged by I-19.
SB2U Vindicator on board the aircraft carrier USS Wasp CV7 World War
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), foreground, alongside USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), rear, in 2020 USS Enterprise (CVN-65), foreground, and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), rear, in 2011 USS Saratoga (CV-60), top, with USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), center, in 1990 Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft.In the United States Navy, these consist of ships.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
USS Wasp (CV-7). Anchored at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "dressed ship" for Navy Day on 27 October 1940. Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 43461. Construction on the eighth Wasp (CV-7).
USN ShipsUSS Wasp (CV7)
The USS Wasp (CV-7) was a conventionally aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy during World War 2. She was classified as a "light" fleet aircraft carrier and was completed with light armor protection but could ferry, launch and recover over 70 aircraft of various types.
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
Bridge Wasp burning after being torpedoed U.S. Destroyer O'Brien is torpedoed on September 15, 1942. She eventually sank on October 19, 1942 while trying to return to the U.S. for repairs. U.S. carrier Wasp, torpedoed earlier, burns in the background. Wasp survivors on USS Laffey at Espiritu Santo Wasp survivors on USS Laffey at Espiritu Santo
Aircraft Carrier Photo Index USS WASP (CV7)
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.