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USS Randolph (CV/CVA/CVS-15) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The second US Navy ship to bear the name, she was named for Founding Father Peyton Randolph , president of the First Continental Congress . [ 1 ]
USS Randolph may refer to: USS Randolph (1776), a sailing frigate launched in 1776 and exploded in 1778 during an engagement with HMS Yarmouth; USS Randolph (CV-15), an aircraft carrier that served from 1944 to 1969; See also. MG Wallace F. Randolph, operated by the United States Army as a cable ship from 1942 to 1949
The geometric identification symbol on the wing shows that the plane was assigned to the USS ''Randolph'' (CV-15). |Source: File usage. The following page uses this file:
Randolph was refueling the destroyer USS Willard Keith (DD-775) during a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 2 September 1958 to 12 March 1959. Several aircraft of Carrier Air Group 7 (CVG-7) can be seen: next to the elevator are two McDonnell F2H-4 Banshee s of Fighter Squadron 71 (VF-71), further aft are two Douglas AD-6 Skyraider s of ...
Description: A U.S. Navy Grumman S2F-3 Tracker of Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 36 (VS-36) "Grey Wolves" passing the Tench-class submarine USS Sirago (SS-485). VS-36 was assigned to Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 58 (CVSG-58) aboard the U.S. anti-submarine aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CVS-15) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 7 June to 31 August 1962.
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CV-15) in port, in 1945. The location seems to be Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA). The location seems to be Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA). Date
[13] [14] [15] CV-2 Lexington: Lexington (lead ship) 14 December 1927 8 May 1942 14 years, 145 days Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 [15] [16] CV-3 Saratoga: Lexington: 16 November 1927 25 July 1946 18 years, 253 days Sunk as target ship near Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946 [15] [17] CV-4 Ranger: Ranger (lead ship) 4 ...
The U.S. Navy has 250 aircraft cooperating with 46 ships in blockading Cuba; the attack aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (CVA(N)-65) and USS Independence (CVA-62) and the antisubmarine carriers USS Essex (CVS-9) and USS Randolph (CVS-15) are among the ships taking part. The United States has a combined 156 aircraft in Florida poised to strike ...