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USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth ...
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.
Description: Two U.S. Navy McDonnell F2H-3 Banshees of Fighter Squadron 114 (VF-114) "Executioners" are about to be launched from the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9). VF-114 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11) aboard the Essex for a deployment to the Western Pacific from 16 July 1956 to 26 January 1957.
Essex (extended bow) 9 October 1944 13 February 1969 24 years, 127 days Scrapped in 1975 [30] CV-16 Lexington: Essex: 17 February 1943 8 November 1991 48 years, 264 days Preserved at USS Lexington Museum on the Bay— Corpus Christi, Texas, USA [31] CV-17 Bunker Hill: Essex: 25 May 1943 9 July 1947 4 years, 45 days Scrapped in 1973 [32] [33 ...
File: USS Essex (CVA-9) underway in heavy seas, 12 January 1960 (NH 98517).jpg
On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
USS Essex (CVA-9) Squadrons embarked: Air Anti-submarine Squadron 36 (VS-36) Anti-submarine Helicopter Squadron 3 (HS-7) Utility Helicopter Squadron 2 (HU-2) Det. USS Tarawa (CVS-40) Squadrons embarked: Air Anti-submarine Squadron 32 (VS-32) Anti-submarine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HS-1) Attack Squadron 172 (VA-172)
July 15–16 – Aircraft from the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9) covered United States Army and U.S. Marine Corps landings in Lebanon in Operation Blue Bat, the American intervention in the 1958 Lebanon crisis. Air support began with a flight by 50 Essex jets over Beirut on July 15. [24] [25]