Photos Aircraft Carriers

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HMS Ark Royal (III) with Swordfish of 820 Naval Air Squadron overhead circa 1939

 

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F4U Corsair coming in for a landing on USS Philippine Sea CV-47 during operations off of Korea - January 1951
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Dominis Photographer

 

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HMS Queen Elizabeth with a busy flight deck

HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Suez Canal, 6 July, 2021

 

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USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during vertrep.

 

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France:
FS Clemenceau and FS Foch together in 1977

 

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HMS Ark Royal relieves HMS Eagle off Cyprus, June 1958.

 

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USS Lexington (CV-2) San Diego 1941

USS Washington (BB-56) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) transiting the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic, early in October 1945. They were en route to New York to participate in Navy Day celebrations.

 

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USS Saratoga CV-60 at Diego Garcia in 1985

USS Saratoga, Returns from Operation Desert Storm, 1991

 

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Japan:
JS Izumo departing port with new deck markings, 2021

 

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USS Bataan (CVL-29) after being modernized from July–November, 1951 for ASW operations, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain is visible, parked at her stern.

 

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USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) (top), and USS MIDWAY (CV-41) moored beside each other Naval Station, Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. 23 Aug 1991.

 

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The aftermath of a Japanese kamikaze attack on the USS Randolph (CV-15) on 11 March 1945.

 

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Douglas SBD Dauntless over USS Enterprise and USS Saratoga, 1942

Destroyer minelayer USS Shannon (DM-25) steams past task forces gathering for the Okinawa Operation at Ulithis Atoll, circa in March 1945. The ships in the near background include the light cruisers USS Flint (CL-97), in left center, and USS Miami (CL-89), at right. Three Essex-class aircraft carriers are anchored in the middle distance. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at the far left.

 

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Argentina:
Aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)

 

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Colossus class aircraft carrier HMS Glory (R62)

The ship was commissioned on 2 April 1945, and left for the Pacific with an air wing of Barracudas (837 Naval Air Squadron) and Corsairs (1831 Naval Air Squadron). At Sydney, she joined the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet as the war was ending. Glory came to Rabaul shortly thereafter on 6 September 1945 to accept the surrender of the Japanese garrison there.

 

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Italy, USN, France, RN & Netherlands:
Naval vessels from five nations move in parade formation for a rare photographic opportunity at sea. In four descending columns, from left to right: ITS Maestrale (F 570), De Grasse (D 612); USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), Charles de Gaulle (R91), Surcouf (F 711); USS Port Royal (CG-73), HMS Ocean (L12), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), ITS Luigi Durand de la Penne (D560); and HNLMS Van Amstel (F 831).

 

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USS Nimitz (CVN-68) entering Apra Harbor, Guam. June 2020

 

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USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) underway in January 1959. Visible is the damage to the ship's port forward flight deck, caused by heavy seas in the Atlantic. The damaged part was replaced with the identical part of the flight deck from the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13).

 

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An F6F Hellcat prepares to take off from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), October 1944, while training in Hawaiian waters.