USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name.

CV-9 was to be the prototype of the 27,000-ton (standard displacement) aircraft carrier, considerably larger than Enterprise, yet smaller than Saratoga (a battlecruiser converted to a carrier). The Navy ordered the first three of the new design, CV-9, CV-10 and CV-11, from Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock on 3 July 1940.

2022年1月11日 · Flames and smoke billow up from fires on the flight deck of USS Essex (CV-9) near the starboard bow, after a McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee jet fighter crashed into parked aircraft in a deck landing...

2017年11月9日 · Aboard USS Essex (CV-9) on 22 October 1944—the eve of the Battle of Leyte Gulf—an F6F Hellcat is raised to the flight deck as a SB2C Helldiver dive bomber and an Avenger prepare to take off. The three aircraft types provided the punch for Task Force's 38 fast carriers. National Archives Photo. Tommy Trampp: NS0209bh: 573k

USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier, the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in December 1942, Essex participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning the Presidential Unit Citation and ...

The machine that U.S.A. built was a naval aircraft carrier by the name of USS Essex CV-9. There had been previous warships which had carried the title of the USS Essex, but the CV-9 was the first aircraft carrier in its class.

Modernization endowed USS Essex (CV-9/CVA-9/CVS-9) with a new flight deck, and a streamlined island superstructure, on 15 January 1951 when recommissioned, Captain A. W. Wheelock...

2020年2月3日 · USS Essex (CV-9) was an American aircraft carrier that entered service during World War II and was in major campaigns in the Pacific and the Korean War.

2019年11月7日 · She was reclassified to an attack aircraft carrier (CVA-9) on 1 October 1952, and an antisubmarine warfare support aircraft carrier (CVS-9) on 8 March 1960. Following her shakedown cruise Essex...

2020年1月14日 · Page details technical specifications, development, operational history of the USS Essex (CV-9) Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier including pictures.