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USS BOUGAINVILLE   (CVE-100)
(later CVU-100 and AKV-35)

(Ex- DIDRICKSON BAY)

Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons

   

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: China Service Medal (extended) / American Campaign Medal
2nd Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2 stars) / World War II Victory Medal / Navy Occupation Service Medal ("Asia" clasp)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Zulu - X-ray

CLASS - CASABLANCA
Displacement 7,800 Tons, Dimensions, 512' 3" (oa) x 65' 2" x 22' 4" (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/38AA 8 x 40mm, 12 x 20mm, 27 Aircraft.
Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 Skinner, Uniflow engines, 2 screws
Speed, 19 Knots, Crew 860.

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Didrickson Bay
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CVE-100 was initially named Didrickson Bay for a bay (also known as Deep Bay) on the west coast of Chichagof Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska (NS0306409).

Renamed Bougainville, 26 April 1944, to commemorate a major campaign fought on the island by that name, in the northern Solomons (NS0310003).

Allied troops stormed ashore at Cape Torokina on 1 November 1943. During the early morning hours of the 2nd, a Japanese surface force composed of four cruisers and six destroyers tried unsuccessfully to break up the invasion in what became known as the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay:

Since the purpose of the assault was to secure air bases to isolate the large Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain, and not necessarily to occupy the entire island, enemy land forces remained active on Bougainville through the end of the war.

NS0310003a: Chart, "The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay." (See also   "Night Engagement off Empress Augusta Bay" video  .)

(Maps NS0306409 and NS0310003 courtesy of Google Maps. Chart NS0310003a courtesy of The Two-Ocean War, by Samuel Eliot Morison [Galahad Books, 1997].)

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Bougainville Island
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Battle of Empress August Bay
NS0310003a
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World War II
CVE-100 Bougainville
NS0310004
33k USS Bougainville (CVE-100). Courtesy of Prior Service,
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CVE-100 Bougainville
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CVE-100 Bougainville
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USS Bougainville (CVE-100) underway, circa 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph (#NH 89182). Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1979.

Naval History & Heritage Command, via Robert Hurst

For more information about this ship, see:

Read the USS BOUGAINVILLE (CVE-100 / CVU-100 / AKV-35) DANFS History entry

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Mr. Robert J Barrett
Address:410 Grove St Braintree, MA, 02184-7340
Phone: 781-843-0703
E-mail: None

Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Escort Carrier Sailors & Airmen Association

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