USS Bairoko underway.

US Navy photo of USS Bairoko (CVE-115) underway, date and location unknown.

Photos from the collection of Frank J. White, USS Bairoko (CVE-115), 1944–1945.

F4U Corsairs on deck.

SB2C Helldivers on deck.

View of the island.

Frank J. White.

The escort carrier USS Bairoko (CVE-115) underway just before the end of the war, location unknown. She is fitted with SK-2 air-search radar. Note the rounded stern, carrying two quad 40mm sponsons; visible forward of the port side sponson is the muzzle of one of the pair of 5"/38's. USN photo.

"Escort Carrier, the USS Bairoko, (CVE-115), part of the Air Support Group under the command of Rear Admiral M.R. Greer, USN, steams past snow covered mountains of Kodiak while recovering Marine support aircraft during 'Operation MICOWEX'".

Quoted from the original picture caption. This view was taken by a USS Boxer (CV-21) photographer on 10 February 1949. A U.S. Marine Corps F4U aircraft is flying over the carrier and other F4Us are parked on her flight deck, forward. Kodiak Island is in the background.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97321).

"The 10,900 ton escort aircraft carrier, USS Bairoko, is shown as she arrived at Pearl Harbor Thursday evening, July 28 (1949), from San Diego, Calif., with 30 officers and 150 enlisted personnel from Composite Squadron 25, which will receive six weeks' training with Fleet All Weather Training Unit at Barber's Point Naval Air Station, Oahu, T.H. The Bairoko is commanded by Captain S. Gazze, USN, of Coronado, California".

Quoted from the original picture caption, released by 14th Naval District Public Information Office on 29 July 1949.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97319).

USS Bairoko (CVE-115) photographed during the later 1940s or early 1950s, off San Diego, California. This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, many years after it was taken.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97320).

"Everybody turns to when it's reactivation time. Here storekeeper striker D.W. Shore ... and Glenn Hobbs ... remove a dehumidifier from the hangar deck of USS Bairoko prior to its actual reactivation by San Francisco Naval Shipyard employees."

"Navy men like Seaman Hobbs and Storekeeper Shore were given the task of helping in reassembling the ship that would be theirs when the ship departed from San Francisco."

Quoted caption was released with this photo circa August 1950. Bairoko recommissioned for Korean War service on 12 September 1950.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the All Hands collection at the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97004).