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13 cze 2019 · USS Wasp (CV-7) in dry dock, in early 1942, at the Norfolk Nay Yard. Wasp , in company with the aircraft escort vessel USS Long Island (AVG-1), and escorted by USS Stack (DD-406) and USS Sterett (DD-407), had left the Caribbean on 22 December 1941.
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.
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.
A subreddit for pictures related to the U.S. military and America in the Second World War. Members Online USS Levy (DE-162) underway on 12 May 1943 upon delivery from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, NJ.
USS Wasp, a 14,700 ton aircraft carrier, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was commissioned in April 1940 and spent the next two years in the Atlantic area, taking part in exercises, Neutrality enforcement, "short of war" operations and early World War II tasks.
Wasp was a United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the sole ship of her class. Built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the United States for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time, she was built on a reduced-size version of the Yorktown class hull.
USS Wasp (CVS-18) is seen in Dry Dock 3 at the South Boston Annex of the Boston Naval Shipyard on 6 January 1964 during her FRAM overhaul. U.S. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-14630.
