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USS CORE   (ACV-13)
(later CVE-13, CVHE-13, CVU-13 and AKV-41)

Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
2nd Row: European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1 star) / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal / World War II Victory Medal
Bogue Class Escort Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Stricken
(see below) 2 Jan 1942 15 May 1942 10 Dec 1942
1 Jul 1958 (*)		 4 Oct 1946
25 Nov 1969
15 Sep 1970
Builder: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Wash.
(*) Under MSTS control (see below)
Specifications
(As commissioned, 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; 2(?) hydraulic catapults
Crew: 890
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USS Core, 1942-1958
CVE-13 Core
NS0301302		 36k USS Core (ACV-13) at anchor while fitting out at Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard, Seattle, WA, January 24, 1943. She is painted in Measure 22 camouflage. USN photo. Robert Hurst
CVE-13 Core
NS0301302		 60k Circa 1943, Measure 22 camouflage. Hazegray & Underway
CVE-13 Core
NS0301307		 171k Aerial view, in Measure 22 camouflage, circa 1943. Courtesy of Tony Alter, via Bill Gonyo
CVE-13 Core
NS0301301		 76k Underway in the Atlantic, circa 1944, Measure 32/4A camouflage. USN
CVE-13 Core
NS0301308		 218k

General Motors FM-2 Wildcat fighter is catapulted from USS Core (CVE-13), in the North Atlantic, 12 April 1944. Taken by Photographer's Mate N.H. Seehafer.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (#80-G-269035).

 Gerd Matthes, Germany
USNS Core, 1958-1969
CVE-13 Core
NS0301305		 104k

The aircraft ferry ship USNS Core (T-AKV 41, ex-T-CVU 13, ex-CVHE 13, ex-CVE 13, ex-ACV 13) dockside, with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft (most of them "cocooned") on deck. USN/MSTS photo.

Wayne Mutza comments: "[This] photo would have been taken in September 1962. Aboard are 15 'cocooned' Bell HU-1A Huey helicopters destined for the Army's airmobile evaluation unit (UTTCHO) at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam."

 Robert Hurst
CVE-13 Core
NS0301303		 44k

USNS Core approaching a berth in Saigon Harbour, June 17, 1965, with Douglas EA-1F Skyraiders for the Vietnamese Air Force.

 Hazegray & Underway
AKV-41 Core
NS0301306		 137k

USNS Core entering San Francisco Bay. Time frame is possibly 1966–1967.

 Robert M. Cieri

For more information about this ship, see:
View the USS Core (ACV-13 / CVE-13 / CVHE-13 / CVU-13 / AKV-41)
DANFS History entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact and Reunion Information
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Contact: Mr. Tony Conte
Address: 13 Armstrong Ave
Wayne, NJ, 07470-6301
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Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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