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USS COPAHEE   (AVG-12)
(later ACV-12, CVE-12 and CVHE-12)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Whiskey - X-ray
Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1 star) / World War II Victory Medal
Bogue Class Escort Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Stricken
(see below) 18 Jun 1941 21 Oct 1941 15 Jun 1942 5 Jul 1946 1 Mar 1959
Builder: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Wash.
Specifications
(As converted, 1942)
Displacement: 7,800 tons standard; 15,700 tons full load (design)
Dimensions (wl): 465' x 69.5' x 23.25'  /  141.7 x 21.2 x 7.1 meters
Dimensions (max.): 495' 8" x 111.5'  /  151.1 x 34 meters
Armor: None
Power plant: 2 boilers (285 psi); 1 steam turbine; 1 shaft; 8,500 shp
Speed: 16.5 knots
Endurance:
Armament: 2 single 5"/51 (later 5"/38) gun mounts; (1943) 8 twin 40-mm/56-cal gun mounts; (1943) 27 single 20-mm/70-cal gun mounts
Aircraft: 24
Aviation facilities: 2 elevators; 1 hydraulic catapult
Crew: 890
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ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301215		 79k

At anchor, circa 1942, location unknown. Compare to photo NS0301204.

 Robert Hurst
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301206		 37k

Puget Sound Navy Yard, 17 August 1942. Bow view.

Seattle Branch of the National Archives photo.

 Tracy White
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301207		 43k

Puget Sound Navy Yard, 17 August 1942. Port view.

Seattle Branch of the National Archives photo.

 Tracy White
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301201		 45k USS Copahee (ACV-12) at sea, 31 August 1942. The ship was the first of 10 escort carriers of the Bogue class. [Photo # 80-G-453805]. National Archives
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301202		 75k

Mess Attendants manning a 20mm machine gun, in a gun tub beside the flight deck, 9 September 1942. The carrier was then en route from Alameda, California, to the southwest Pacific.

Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-71586).

 NHC
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301208		 93k

Stern view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) in San Francisco Bay, 9 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3398-43.

 Darryl Baker
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301209		 88k

Starboard broadside view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) in San Francisco Bay, 9 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3402-43.

 Darryl Baker
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301210		 79k

Bow on view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) in San Francisco Bay, 9 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3407-43.

 Darryl Baker
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301211		 190k

Aft plan view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) at Mare Island on 14 July 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5124-43.

 Darryl Baker
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301212		 207k

Forward plan view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) at Mare Island on 14 July 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5125-43.

 Darryl Baker
ACV-12 Copahee
NS0301213		 114k

Stern view of USS Copahee (ACV-12) off Mare Island on 14 July 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5133-43.

 Darryl Baker
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301214		 174k

USS Copahee passing under the Golden Gate Bridge on her way out to sea on 15 July 1943, the day she was redesignated CVE-12. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5188-43.

 Darryl Baker
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301203		 70k

With a deck load of SBD Dauntless dive bombers bound for the Pacific war zone, 10 April 1944. Camouflage Measure 21 (Navy Blue).

 National Archives
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301205		 106k

USS Copahee (CVE-12) left the Garapan anchorage off Saipan on 8 July 1944 with a load of captured Japanese planes (13 Zekes and 1 Kate) and equipment (37 engines) to be used for intelligence and training purposes, and arrived in San Diego on 28 July. (Photo # 80-G-276964).

 National Archives
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301204		 60k

Underway off Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, 1944. Camouflage Measure 32/12A (Dull Black, Ocean Gray and Light Gray). The "zipper" was a line of structural supports protecting an external avgas line. Compare to photo NS0301215.

 USN
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301217		 165k

200,000 mile celebration for the crew, March 18, 1945.

 Steve Parodi, grandson of a ship's plankowner
CVE-12 Copahee
NS0301216		 101k

Ship's Bell.

 Steve Parodi, grandson of a ship's plankowner

For more information about this ship, see:
View the USS Copahee (AVG-12 / ACV-12 / CVE-12 / CVHE-12)
DANFS History entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact Information
Contact: Mr. LeRoy W. Schlaegel, National Chairman
Address: 2706 Washlan Ave, Spc 314
Fresno, CA, 93705-1746
Phone: 559-222-9344
E-mail: LeRoyCVE12@aol.com
Web site: U.S.S. Copahee CVE-12
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Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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