USN Aircraft Carriers - CVA CVS CVL CVE CV Conventional Carriers

[Salvage Sailor]

USS INTREPID (CVS-11) 1960's Ballcap patch still in the cellophane

 

Full size USS INTREPID (CVS-11)

[Salvage Sailor]

USS HORNET (CVS-12) HUK Hunter Killer ASW Carrier, Hilborn Hamburger 1958

[Salvage Sailor]

USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CV/CVA/CVS-39) Essex class 'Long Hull' aka Ticonderoga class in service 1945 to 1968.

 

Lake Champlain had a unique modernization history. She was the only Essex-class ship to receive the SCB-27 conversion, which was a rebuild of the superstructure, flight deck and other features, but not also receive the SCB-125 conversion, which would have given her an angled flight deck and hurricane bow. Therefore, she had the distinction of being the last operational US aircraft carrier with an axial (straight not angled) flight deck.

 

USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CVS-39) Essex class long hull aircraft carrier in service 1945 to 1966

Hilborn Hamburger small version

[Bearmon]

USS Windham Bay TCVE 92 It carried the TCVE designation in 1953 large patch about 8 inches in diameter.

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Casablanca class "Jeep" Escort Carrier USS WINDHAM BAY (T-CVU-92) In service 1944 to 1959.

 

She was classified as T-CVU-92 in 1957

 

Nice earlier one Bearmon, looks just like the CVU patch in post No. 137

[Salvage Sailor]

Chaplain's Office, USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CVA-67) 1970-1971 Med Cruise

[Salvage Sailor]

USS WASP (CVS-18) The famous Essex class carrier of WWII In service 1943 to 1972

 

 

 

 

 

[firefighter]

69-70 Cruise

 

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[Salvage Sailor]

Kitty Hawk patch I bought at the same time as the used one, but never worn. You can see the holes where it was stapled to the card for display in the ships store

 

USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63) Class leader in service 1961 to 2009

That one is a 1970's Gemsco Steve

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SHANGRI LA (CVA-38) - CASREP '70 World and Final Cruise

 

Let me point out that the SHANG was an aging ship. Nothing worked but the crew. It was either cry or laugh, when someone in the crew had a cruise patch made up titled “CASREP-70”, listing the major casualties that were reported during the cruise: Lost a screw while launching strikes; Dead in the water; Evaporators never able to provide enough water; Reefers burned up losing all perishable food; Lost steering while in a turn , (prompting the recommendation that we fire off two aircraft each time we passed through the launch heading); Port catapult cold cat shots; Liquid Oxygen plant inoperable; Contaminated jet fuel; Aircraft elevator cables parted; TACAN failure; and one story that the radar antenna fell and landed on Primary.....Story behind the patch here http://cva38.havoc-creative.com/2013/04/last-cruise/

 

USS Shangri-La (CVS 38) Vietnam World Cruise Book 1970 https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv38-70/index.html

[Salvage Sailor]

TASK GROUP ALFA 1959 - USS VALLEY FORGE (CVS-45)

On 1 April 1958, Rear Admiral John S. Thach hoisted his two-star flag to the carrier's main as the ship became flagship of Task Group Alpha (TG Alpha). This group, built around Valley Forge, included eight destroyers, two submarines, and one squadron each of antisubmarine helicopters and airplanes; a detachment of airborne early warning airplanes, modified A-1 Skyraiders called "guppies" because of their bulging ventral Radomes; and a land-based Lockheed P-2 Neptune. A significant development in naval tactics, TG Alpha concentrated solely on developing and perfecting new devices and techniques for countering the potential menace of enemy submarines in an age of nuclear propulsion and deep-diving submersibles.

Observing the New Year (1958-1959) at sea, the carrier was steaming in very heavy weather when she was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with a merchant ship. Heavy seas severely damaged the forward portion of the flight deck, requiring her to proceed to the New York Naval Shipyard for repairs. To ready her for service as quickly as possible, a corresponding 30-by-90-foot (9.1 m × 27.4 m) section was taken from the flight deck of the inactive carrier USS Franklin (CVS-13), berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey. The damaged section was cut away from Valley Forge's flight deck and the Franklin deck piece installed in its place. A bronze plaque was mounted on the newly replaced deck section to commemorate how the Franklin was damaged in action off Japan in April 1945

 

VALLEY FORGE patch circa 1954 to 1960 (CVS-45)

[Salvage Sailor]

USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) Midway class carrier in service 1947 to 1990 Japanese made removed from a work jacket.

 

 

Far East Cruise 1963 - This was the end of an era, for the rest of the decade the Far East faded away and from 1964 on WESTPAC meant a Vietnam War cruise

 

 

Same Carrier, later in the decade. Far East Cruise 1969 Vietnam

 

 

[Siamundo]

1950's USS Leyte CV-32/CVA-32/CVS-32. Decommissioned in 1959

[Salvage Sailor]

1950's USS Leyte CV-32/CVA-32/CVS-32. Decommissioned in 1959

 

Nice hard to find carrier patch

[Bearmon]

Still on the GEMSCO card, USS Independence CVA 62 four gold stars and white bell backround were used early on later the patch had 13 white stars and a red bell backround

 

An newer much larger 13 star also on a GEMSCO card for comparison

[Salvage Sailor]

USS HORNET (CVA-12) 1954 INDOCHINA TASK FORCE 70.2 - WORLD CRUISE

 

Patrolling the Formosa (Taiwan) Strait and the South China Sea off of Indochina (Vietnam) during the French Indochina war

 

Norfolk, Portugal, Italy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Singapore, Equator, Manila, Japan, Hong Kong, Hawaii & San Francisco

[Salvage Sailor]

USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) Last of the Forrestal class in service 1959 to 1998

 

 

Operation Urgent Fury, Grenada 1983

 

 

 

Operation Urgent Fury, Grenada 1983, USS INDEPENDENCE

 

 

 

Grenada Gun Club - Operation Urgent Fury, Grenada 1983 USS INDEPENDENCE

 

[Bearmon]

USS Forrestal Hanger Deck Hackers on the Gemsco card

[busternfo]

Ranger LSO patch? Good evening all. Can anyone help me with interpreting the characters at the top of this patch? I am fairly sure it is from the Ranger and looks Japanese made? The subject appears to be related to the LSOs. Thanks, Dennie

[Salvage Sailor]

Aloha Dennie,

 

Nice large christmas tree PLAT patch

 

PLAT (Pilot/LSO Landing Aid Television)

 

[busternfo]

Hi Bearmon, Is your CVA-59 Hangar Deck Hackers 5 inches? I have one that size.

Dennie

[busternfo]

Thanks Salvage Sailor! I am happy to learn about PLAT. You have some amazing items in your collection. Thanks for posting so many,

 

Dennie

[Salvage Sailor]

USS MIDWAY (CV-41) Lead ship of her class in service 1945 to 1992.

 

Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal. She operated for 47 years, during which time she saw action in the Vietnam War and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm. Decommissioned in 1992, she is now a museum ship at the USS Midway Museum, in San Diego, California, and the only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier commissioned right after World War II ended that was not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.

 

The difficult to find Gooney Bird USS MIDWAY patch circa early 1950's

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS ANTIETAM (CV-36) Essex class (long hull) aka Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier in service 1945 to 1963,

later classified as (CVA-36) & (CVS-36).  WWII & Korean War service, four cruises with Task Force 77 (TF 77), in the combat zone off the coast of the Korean peninsula

 

 

USS ANTIETAM (CVS-36) Essex class (long hull) aka Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier in service 1945 to 1963. Photo shows conversion from straight flight deck (CV) to angled flight deck (CVA/CVS)

 

A successful high altitude experiment, and a tragedy for the aeronauts of the Office of Naval Research, May 4th, 1961 off of Pensacola, Florida.

 

The deck of the Antietam served as the launching pad for the stratospheric balloon flight of Commander Malcolm D. Ross and Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather, both of the United States Navy, on 4 May 1961. This flight set an absolute official altitude record for manned balloons of 113,740 feet (34,670 m). The flight took place over the Gulf of Mexico. During recovery, Prather slipped from the rescue helicopter's lifting harness, fell into the ocean, and died from his injuries onboard Antietam. Commander Ross was successfully recovered.

 

Photograph from my collection: An earlier successful test in April 1961 by the same Aeronauts. Note the Balloon on the yardarm and the rescue helicopter on the flight deck in the photograph.

 

 

[Bearmon]

Hi Bearmon, Is your CVA-59 Hangar Deck Hackers 5 inches? I have one that size.

Dennie

Dennie. Yes it is that size. Sorry I just saw this post