Photos Aircraft Carriers

USS Hancock (CVA-19) in San Francisco Bay, California (USA), in September 1957. Her crew is spelling out "Our Town" on her flight deck

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville CG 62 breaks away from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 after escorting Lincoln through the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Chancellorsville is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. Jan 2020
US Navy photo.

Thirty-eight years ago today March 27, 1983 as USS FORRESTAL CV-59 rested on keel blocks in Drydock 5, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA. SOPA is Commanding Officer USS SARATOGA CV-60. Commanding Officer is Captain Bobby C. Lee, USN. Ships present include USS SARATOGA CV-60, and various units of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet plus various yard and district craft, and units of the Mothball Fleet. The ship is in cold iron status. The ship is receiving all services from the pier. Material condition Yoke has been set throughout the ship.
USS FORRESTAL’s Service Life Extension Program continues.
Both USS FORRESTAL’s port and starboard rudders were removed, for only the second time since the ship was built. Both rudders will be removed for painting and preservation. Their removal, along with the rudder pins, represent one of the most challenging feats the machinists, riggers, woodworking and crane operators have faced.

USS WASP (CV-7) at anchor in Casco Bay on 26th March, 1942. Also present are the battleships North Carolina and Washington. The next day they will depart (minus the South Carolina) the anchorage and cross the Atlantic for service with the British Home Fleet.

Marking the first time a Ford-class and Italian carrier have operated together underway, USS Gerald R. Ford - CVN 78 and the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550) transit the Atlantic Ocean. Cavour is conducting sea trials in coordination with the F-35 Lightning II to obtain official certification to safely operate the F-35B, and Ford is conducting integrated carrier strike group operations during independent steaming event 17 as part of her post-delivery test and trials phase of operations.

Her Majesty The Queen today officially bid a fond farewell to HMS Ocean as the Royal Navy's 'Mighty O' was decommissioned.
Full story: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/.../180327-hms-ocean-leaves...

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY SOUDA BAY, Greece (March 20, 2021) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN 69 arrives in Souda Bay, Greece, for a scheduled port visit, March 20, 2021. Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a routine deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national interests and security in Europe and Africa. NSA Souda Bay is an operational ashore base that enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to be where they are needed when they are needed to ensure security and stability in Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia.
U.S. Navy photo by Joel Diller
210320-N-UR565-0002

French carrier Béarn.

Fanshaw Bay at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 5 July 1944, showing a hole in the elevator (top) from a Japanese bomb. Note the size when compared to the man seen on the flight deck, and the size of the men on the hangar deck involved in inspecting the damage. Note the torpedo stowage. (U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Photograph BS-110053, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Division, College Park, Md.)

Dump and burn.

Carrier Air Group (CVG) 9 was established #OTD in 1952. It was later redesignated Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 and Team Shogun remains operational today. In this image CVW-9 aircraft are pictured on board USS Constellation (CVA 64) off North Vietnam in May 1972.

HMAS Melbourne and a Midway class carrier.

Fifty-seven years ago today March 26, 1964 as USS FORRESTAL CVA-59 sat moored to Pier 12, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia.
Change of Command.
Tenth Commanding Officer, Captain Michael J. Hanley Jr., USN, assumes command of FORRESTAL relieving Captain Dick H. Guinn at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, VA. Captain Dick H. Guinn received orders to report to Chief of Naval Personnel for duty.
TENTH COMMANDING OFFICER OF USS FORRESTAL CVA-59
Captain Hanley was born in Washington, DC.
He entered the Naval Academy in 1936 from the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve and graduated in 1940.
He was the captain of the Basketball team in his first class year.
Captain Hanley completed helicopter training at Pensacola, FL. and was designated a Navy Helicopter Pilot. His tours of duties include Command of Attack Carrier Air Group 181, Executive officer and Commanding officer of Attack Squadron Sixty-five and Command of Attack Squadron One hundred Seventy-five. He was Executive officer of USS CASHIELL DD-659. Captain Hanley was Commanding Officer of USS SCROGGINS, a Destroyer Escort. He had a tour of duty as Operations Officer, Staff, Commander Carrier Division TWO; and as Air Officer aboard USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CVA-42; and as Air Group Training and Training Officer on the Staff of Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet. Captain Hanley had assignments to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Navy Member of the Staff Group in the Office of the Chairman of Tours of Duty in the Naval Air Training Command. He was Commanding Officer of USS THETIS BAY LPH-6, a Jeep Carrier that operated as a unit of the Amphibious Force Atlantic Fleet. Captain Hanley wears the Legion of Merit with Combat “V” for service in the Pacific Campaign during World War II.
Captain Michael J. Hanley came to USS FORRESTAL from duty as Commanding Officer, USS THETIS BAY LPH-6, a jeep carrier, which operated as a unit of the Amphibious Force Atlantic Fleet.
FORRESTAL is his sixth command at sea. Previous tours in addition to the THETIS BAY have included command of Attack Carrier air Group 181, command of two attack carrier squadron VA-65, and VA-175, and command of the Destroyer Escort USS SCROGGINS DE-799. He also served as Executive Officer of Attack Squadron 65, and the Destroyer USS DASHIELL DD-659. Other sea duty tours have included duties as Air Officer of the attack carrier USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CVA-42; as Operations Officer, Staff, and Commander Carrier Division Two; and as Air Group Training and Training Officer on the Staff of Commanding Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet.
Shore duty tours have included assignment to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Navy member of the Staff Group in the Office of the Chairman and tours of duty in the Naval Air Training Command.
Captain Hanley is a graduate of the National War College and Armed Forces Staff College. He entered the U. S. Naval Academy in 1936 from the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve and graduated in the class of 1940. He was captain of the basketball team in his first class year.
Captain Hanley was born in Washington, DC. He wears the Legion of Merit with Combat “V” for service in the Pacific Campaign in World War II. Before taking command of the THETIS BAY, captain Hanley completed helicopter training at Pensacola, FL, and was designated a Navy Helicopter pilot.
Captain Henley is married to the former Chris Nystie of Detroit, MI. Captain and Mrs. Hanley have two daughters: Susan 20 and Michele, 14.

A A-7 Corsair and F-4 Phantom strike package raining bombs on enemy targets