The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Casablanca (ACV-55, later CVE-55) prepares to be launched at Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington in April 1943. (U.S. Navy Photo.)
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Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldivers strapped to the deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Kwajalein (CVE-98) during a typhoon in December 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Dauntless dive bombers and Grumman Wildcat fighters are parked on the deck of escort carrier USS Santee (ACV-29) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Arbiter (D31) moored at Greenock, Scotland in July 1944. (Imperial War Museums Collection.)
The escort carrier USS Attu (CVE-102), loaded with Vought F4U Corsairs on the flight deck, photographed alongside the Clemson-class destroyer USS Fox, September 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy sailors on the escort carrier USS Kasaan Bay launch a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 74 (VF-74) during the invasion of Southern France. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolts loaded on the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Casablanca (CVE-55) in July 1945. (U.S. National Archives Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy’s USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), a Casablanca-class escort carrier, is photographed at anchor in February 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A gun crew fires 40mm Bofors guns aboard the escort carrier USS Badoeng Strait, circa 1948. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Prior to the invasion of Southern France, U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 74 (VF-74) are parked on the deck of the escort carrier USS Kasaan Bay (CVE-69), August 1944. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)