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406k | USS Cape Esperance (CVE-88) raising the flag as the ship is recommissioned for Korean War service, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 5 August 1950. Members of the color detail are (from left to right): Quartermaster First Class Howard L. Foley, USNR; Seaman Bobby G. Young, USN; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Alva L. Dixon, USN; Seaman Apprentice Raymond E. Garcia, USN; and Seaman Cesar C. Abrajano, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the All Hands collection at the Naval History & Heritage Command (# NH 97005). |
Courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
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50k | Undated, showing her deck crammed with aircraft. | USN | |
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55k | Cape Esperance in the 1950s, as a T-CVU (Utility Carrier civilian manned by the Military Sea Transportation Service). She is carrying Navy Banshees and Skyraiders and has been stripped of guns and all but navigational radar. Not long afterwards the Casablanca-class were replaced as aircraft transports by Bogue-class ships, more economical to operate. | Haze Gray & Underway | |
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105k | USNS Cape Esperance (T-CVE 88) underway en-route to Korea carrying Air Force F-84 Thunderjets, F-86 Sabres, T-6 Texans, F-80 Shooting Stars, Navy F6F Hellcats and liaison aircraft. Note single 5" gun aft (USN photo.) |
Robert Hurst | |
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187k | USNS Cape Esperance (T-CVU 88) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with a cargo of Navy and Air Force aircraft during the mid-1950s. Aircraft visible on her flight deck include AD Skyraider attack planes, F2H Banshee fighters and at least one U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command (# NH 52441). |
Naval History & Heritage Command via Robert Hurst | |
USS CAPE ESPERANCE CVE-88 History
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