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USS Bennington (CV/CVA/CVS-20) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1952 to 1970. She was sold for scrap in 1994. She was sold for scrap in 1994.
Description: Stern of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennigton (CVA-20) at Hong Kong, showing the 3in/50 (7.6 cm) Mk 33 twin mounts.Bennington, with assigned Air Task Group 181 (ATG-181), was deployed to the Western Pacific from 15 October 1956 to 22 May 1957.
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A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Fighter Squadron VF-74 "Be-Devilers" making a crash landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVA-20) in October 1953. VF-74 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 7 (CVG-7) aboard the Bennington for a deployment to the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea from 16 September 1953 to 21 February 1954. Date
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CV-20) showing her collapsed flight deck, which was damaged by Typhoon Connie on 5 June 1945. USS Hornet (CV-12), which was in Task Group 38.1 with Bennington, received a similar damage to her flight deck.
Five Essex-class units at Long Beach Navy Yard in 1966; Bennington (CVS-20), Yorktown (CVS-10) and Hornet (CVS-12) are configured as ASW carriers; Bon Homme Richard (angled deck; with bridle catchers) is an attack carrier (CVA); Valley Forge (axial flight deck) is serving as an LPH; note the helicopter landing circles on her deck.
English: Scoreboard of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CV-20), circa in August 1945. The ship's captain, Captain Boynton Lewis Braun, USN, is looking from the bridge. He commanded Bennington from 30 June 1945 to 8 July 1946.
[20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ship) 25 April 1940 15 September 1942 2 years, 143 days Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 [21] CV-8 Hornet: Yorktown: 20 October 1941 27 October 1942 1 year, 7 days Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942 [22] [23] CV-9 Essex: Essex (lead ship) 31 December 1942 30 June 1969 26 years, 171 days ...