20 of the Most Famous US Aircraft Carriers
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Designed as a floating airstrip, the aircraft carriers are the largest ships in any navies around the world. The US naval force owns its formidable reputation to its carrier task force. Because carriers are often named with the same name, they are identified by their “CV” designation.
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1.
CV-6 Enterprise
Part of US Navy task force that defeated the Japanese navy at Midway. She was the most decorated vessel in the navy earning 20 battle stars in WW2
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CVN-65 Enterprise 1961
The Enterprise was the first nuclear-powered and longest aircraft carrier of the US navy.
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Part of US nuclear task force that sailed around the world (31,000 miles) in 65 days WITHOUT refueling
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CV-5 Yorktown 1937
The Yorktown was part of the carrier task force that destroyed half the Japanese carrier fleet at the battle of midway. She was sunk on June 1942 after being bombed by Japanese “Val” Bombers.
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CV-8 Hornet 1941
The Hornet was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942
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CV-2 Lexington 1927
The Lexington met her demise on May 1942 at the Battle of the Coral Sea
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CVN-70 Carl Vinson 1981
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CV-42 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945
The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first carrier that went operational with jet fighters on her flight deck.
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CVB-41 Midway 1945
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Midway Magic earned the PUC presidential unit citation for being the outstanding carrier of the Vietnam war. Also during Operation Frequent Wind finally got Net Control from Coral Sea who wasn't handling it well, kept it and was lauded by the Admiral in charge of the evacuation
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135+ days at sea for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. We had a 6 pack line period (2 cans of beer after each 45 days at sea.).
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CVN-68 Nimitz 1975
13 points - added 14 years ago by josephling67 - 1 comment
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Plank owner. V-1 Division
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10.
CV-43 USS Coral Sea 1946
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Most days on the line during Viet Nam.
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CVL-22 USS Independence 1942
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CV-7 Wasp 1940
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CV-3 USS Saratoga 1927
She was visually identical in every respect with her sister ship, the Lexington. Her only distinguishing feature was a black stripe painted on her funnel, hence her nickname “Stripe-Stacked Sara."
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14.
CV-17 USS Bunker Hill 1943
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15.
USS Franklin
The ship that would not die. Had the most number of crew killed in action of any warship to not sink. Efforts of the crew to save sinking ship after a Kamikaze attack led to saving over 300 sailors trapped below.
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CV-63 USS Kitty Hawk
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Why was it called the kity hawk??
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Last conventionally-fuelled aircraft carrier in service. Decommisioned 2009
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CV-67 John F. Kennedy 1968
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CVN-76 Ronald Reagan 2003
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19.
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
Casablanca-class escort carrier. In 1994 was flagship of Task Group 22.3 which captured the German submarine U-505 — the first enemy warship captured on the high seas since 1815 — and was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation.
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correction — date should be 1944, not 1994.
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20.
USS Ranger
The first Aircraft carrier in the fleet to be built as such from the keel up, all the ones before were converted from other ships
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When was it decommisioned
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CVN-77 George H.W. Bush 2009
The George H.W. Bush is the latest addition to the US navy Carrier fleet.
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CV-19 USS Hancock 1944
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23.
CV-1 Langley 1922
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First Aircraft carrier in the navy
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24.
CVL-23 Princeton 1943
The Princeton was sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944
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25.
CV/CVA-19 USS Hancock 1944
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26.
USS card
because they went on hunting trips in WWII and the vietnam war
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