Photos Aircraft Carriers

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USS Lexington (CV 16) recovers aircraft while underway in the Pacific in March 1944.

 

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Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier
Program: Background and Issues for Congress

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS20643.pdf

 

[colin traveller]

Queen Elizabeth at Glen Mallan on Loch Long just up from the Oil terminal picking up her weapons Not mine taken from the RN FB Page ,,,

 

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I wonder if anyone has noticed when the subject of sinking of USS America is mentioned on certain fb group pages .. an image of USS Tonkin is used and they claim it's the USS America even though it was sunk in complete secrecy in the Atlantic and it was only by a FOIA that it became known ..

 

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I wonder if anyone has noticed when the subject of sinking of USS America is mentioned on certain fb group pages .. an image of USS Tonkin is used and they claim it's the USS America even though it was sunk in complete secrecy in the Atlantic and it was only by a FOIA that it became known ..

What's all the hubbub about with the USS America and all that???

 

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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator taxies on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), Dec 9, 2012

 

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I wonder if anyone has noticed when the subject of sinking of USS America is mentioned on certain fb group pages .. an image of USS Tonkin is used and they claim it's the USS America even though it was sunk in complete secrecy in the Atlantic and it was only by a FOIA that it became known ..

I don't know. I don't do facebook.

USS Tonkin? No such carrier. USS America(CV 66)..was sunk as an experiment to test the survivability of a super carrier against underwater weapons...she was not sunk by the weapons used to sink her. She was sunk by munitions pre-set by EOD techs.. Please read;

Here’s why it Took four Weeks to Scuttle USS America, the Only Supercarrier Ever Sunk - The Aviation Geek Club

Here’s why it Took four Weeks to Scuttle USS America, the Only Super Carrier Ever Sunk. On Apr. 19, 2005, USS America left Philadelphia under tow on its final mission

theaviationgeekclub.com

 

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USS Ranger CV-4 under construction by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, VA, circa 1932.

USS Ranger CV-4 in Panama Canal by Harley Flowers, on Flickr

USS Ranger CV-4 entering Lake Gatun in the Panama Canal in 1939 to 1940. Not marked but this may be a Foto Flatau photograph by John F Flatau

USS Ranger CV-4 by Harley Flowers, on Flickr

USS Ranger CV-4 from Stern by Harley Flowers, on Flickr

USS Ranger in Panama Canal by Harley Flowers, on Flickr

USS Ranger CV-4 in the Panama Canal during the 1930's. The first Navy vessel to be designed and built as a carrier. A Foto Flatau RPPC, photos by John F Flatau

 

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An octuple pom-pom on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious

 

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During the French carrier strike group mission CLEMENCEAU 21, exercise GASWEX (Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise) brings together American, Belgian, French and Japanese naval assets, in a combined, multilateral surface, air and sub-surface training. Hereaircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle and the US amphibious assault ship Makin Island, March 2021

 

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USS Bennington (CVA-20) underway off Hawaii, in 1958

 

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GASWEX 21 Group Sail

During the French carrier strike group mission CLEMENCEAU 21, exercise GASWEX (Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise) brings together American, Belgian, French and Japanese naval assets, in a combined, multilateral surface, air and sub-surface training. Around french aircraft carrier Charles de...

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During the French carrier strike group mission CLEMENCEAU 21, exercise GASWEX (Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise) brings together American, Belgian, French and Japanese naval assets, in a combined, multilateral surface, air and sub-surface training. Around french aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle appear the US guided-missile cruiser Port Royal and the US amphibious assault ship Makin Island, the Belgian frigate Leopold the 1st, the Japanese destroyer Ariake, and the French frigate Provence. GASWEX exercise aims is to improve operational effectiveness and enhance interoperability between partners.

 

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Nice pics guys and informative as well, Popeye always seems to have the facts, and that my friends keeps us all honest lol.

CVN 73 USS George Washington:

 

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