Off Norfolk Navy Yard on March 26, 1943, still not complete after her November 8, 1942 commissioning. Her HF/DF antenna is not installed, necessary for her Atlantic area anti-submarine duty.

Stern view of the Card (ACV-11), also taken on March 26, 1943.

USN photo of USS Card (ACV-11), also dated March 26, 1943 (see NS0301101 and NS0301102). Via US Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, #13801.

USS Card underway, date and location unknown.

USS Card underway circa 1943, location unknown.

USS Card (ACV-11) underway in the Atlantic on 15 June 1943, with seven TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bombers and six F4F-4 Wildcat fighters of Squadron VC-1 parked on her flight deck.

Photographed by a plane of Utility Squadron 4.

"Shown here is U-664 under attack from U.S. Navy aircraft. The Type VIIC boat U-664 left Brest on 21 June 1943 for a fifth war cruise, under the command of Kapitanleutnant Adolf Graef. On 8 August it was at a rendezvous west of the Azores with the Type VIIC boats U-760 and U-262 when it was attacked by a F4F-4 Wildcat and TBF-1 Avenger from the Composite Squadron onboard the escort carrier USS Card, commanded by Captain A.J. Isbell. The combined fire from U-664 and U-262 brought down both aircraft and the U-boats escaped immediate damage. U-664 met its end later on 9 August 1943 when attacked by three more aircraft from the escort carrier Card. This took place in clear weather under broken cloud. The first was a TBF-1 Avenger, flown by Lieutenant (jg) G.G. Hogan, which dropped two 500-lb depth bombs with contact fuses in two separate attacks. Between these attacks Lieutenant N.D. Hodson in his F4F-4 Wildcat raked the U-boat with gunfire. Then Lieutenant (jg) J.C. Forney dropped another depth bomb from his TBF-1 Avenger. He refrained from dropping the other when he saw the crew abandoning the U-boat. Eight of the crew were killed but forty-four were picked up and taken prisoner by one of the destroyer escorts. Kapitanleutnant Graef was one of the survivors. The Swordfish emblem on the conning tower of the U-boat was that of the 9th Flotilla at Brest. Ref: ADM 199/1408."

Text and photo from Ultra Versus U-Boats, by Roy Conyers Nesbit.

(See also "U-Boat 664" on the Submarines Sunk of Attacked by USS Card (CVE-11) page.)

The Presidential Unit Citation flag, awarded to USS Borie's crew for their 1 November 1943 battle against the German submarine U-405, is examined by some of the officers involved, during awards ceremonies held on board USS Card (CVE-11) on 10 November 1943. Those present are (from left to right): Lieutenant Commander Herbert D. Hill, Commanding Officer, USS Barry (DD-248); Lieutenant Commander Howard M. Avery, Commanding Officer, Squadron VC-9; Lieutenant Charles H. Hutchins, Commanding Officer, USS Borie (DD-215); and Lieutenant Commander Hinton Ira Smith, Commanding Officer, USS Goff (DD-247). Lieutenant Hutchins had just received the Navy Cross for his part in the action. The other three officers had received the Legion of Merit.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-43652).

USS Card (CVE-11) fitted with longer hangar.

From Navies of the Second World War, by H.T. Lenton (Doubleday & Co., 1968).

Two versions of the same photo. USS Card (CVE-11) in dazzle camouflage, circa 1944.

Caption on back reads: "Aerial photo of Card taken by Bailey, D.T., ARM 3/c, USN." Taken from blimp K-20 from squadron VC-55. BuAer photo # 218112.

Some one was always running into us. Once on starboard bow and once head on.

Atlantic hurricane. September 1944.

Bottom: rudder and screw out of water.

Rough seas! (1945.)

A painting of the Card by Anton Otto Fisher, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard. A calendar for General Electric promoting the G.E. turbines installed in the Card.

Scale model of the USS Card (CVE-11) camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 4A, built by Joe Macchia.

TBF-1 landing mishap aboard USS Card, December 9, 1942.

Read the Commander Fleet Air, West Coast; Pilot; and LSO reports.

Source: Seattle Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 181; 13th Naval District Central Subject Files; (Entry PSNS-3) 514936-54, CVHE11.

Cdr. James B. Sykes (R), first commanding officer (November 1942-April 1943), being relieved by Capt. Arnold J. Isbell (L).

Captain Arnold J. Isbell, second commanding officer, April 1943-March 1944. He was killed in action aboard USS Franklin (CV-13) on March 19, 1945. Destroyer DD-869 was named after him.

Captain Rufus C. Young, third commanding officer, March 1944-March 1945.

Captain Paul L. Dudley, fourth commanding officer, March 1945-February 1946.

Rev. Bell (L) being relieved by Father Considine (R), 1943.

The crew getting briefed.

Ship's company, 1944.

VC-1 pilots and crew, 1942-43.

VC-9 pilots, 1943.

VC-55 pilots and aircrew, 1943.

VC-12 pilots, 1944.

VC-12 Squadron flight jacket patch, USS Card, summer 1944 .

VC-8 complete squadron, September 1944.

USNS Card approaching the locks in Bremerhaven, Germany. Believed to have been taken in the summer of 1962. Note the former US tugs, then the North German Lloyd's tugs Hercules and Sirius, pulling the carrier to the berth. Card and several of her sisters transported US military aircraft to Germany in those days.

USNS Card, date and place unknown.

The Card as she looked while serving in VietNam. She carried mobile homes, trailers, planes and helicopters and crews to Nam, returned with damaged planes, etc.

"Publication of this North Vietnamese stamp was a bit premature, but it has shown up —illegally, we are told by collectors— on correspondence coming from North Vietnam. Canadian stamp collector Arthur W. Mears, sent Sealift a copy of his stamp with a description of the colors: blue-gray background; black hull; white border and stamp value; conning tower and flag are both black and white. The flag, at least, is accurate in position, anyway. The Card was in distress that day. Legend across top and down right hand side is loosely translated: 'Aircraft carrier of America sunk in harbor of Saigon.' Translation was obtained by telephone with a patient and obliging employee of the Embassy of Vietnam, in Washington."

"Thanks to: Mr. Arthur Mears,,Canada"

Sealift Magazine, November 1966.

USNS Card (T-AKV 40) near Gibraltar in 1966, seen from the ST London Valour.

The photo was taken in 1969, at the dock in Subic Bay. F-4 Phantoms are seen in cocoon wrap on the deck. These were destined to Vietnam.

Ex-USS Card being cut up in Clatskanie, Or., 1970.