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Strength
Aircraft Carrier
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Type
Surface Vessel
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Year
1944 - 1946
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Hull number CV-20
- Essex class (short-hull) Fleet Carrier:
- Displacement: 27,100 tons
- Length: 872'
- Extreme width: 147' 6"
- Beam: 93'
- Draft: 28'7"
- Speed: 33 kts.
- Armament: 12 - 5"/38, 103 planes
- Complement: 3448
- Built at New York Navy Yard and Launched 26 February 1944
- Commissioned 6 August 1944 as CV-20
- Out of commission in reserve at Norfolk 8 November 1946.
- Recommissioned 13 November 1952 as CVA-20
- One of her catapults exploded 26 May 1954
- New York Naval Shipyard
repairs & complete rebuild 12 June 1954 - 19 March 1955
- Departed Mayport Fla., 8 September 1955 for the Pacific
- Redesignated as CVS-20 an ASW carrier 30 June 1959
- Decommissioned 15 January 1970
- Stricken 20 September 1989
- Sold for scrap 12 January 1994
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- Anderson, William, PO2, (1967-1971)
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- Bare, Gary, PO3, (1966-1970)
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- Chester L., Maxwell, S1c, (1944-1946)
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- Coffey, Leonard, S2c, (1943-1946)
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- Crooks, Dennis Joseph, MCPO, (1939-1967)
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- Cunningham, Mike, PO2, (1960-1968)
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- Fleck, Donovan, PO2, (1965-1974)
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- Gallup, John, PO2, (1959-1965)
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- Geringer, Richard, MCPO, (1956-1985)
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- HASSETT, EDWARD, PO2, (1952-1956)
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- Hendon, Clarence, SCPO, (1950-1972)
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- Jeffries, Robert, PO2, (1965-1971)
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- Jobson, John, PO2, (1944-1952)
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- Locke, William, CDR, (1948-1982)
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- Martin, Howard, PO1, (1941-1947)
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- Martinez, Robert, PO3, (1958-1962)
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- Morris, Michael, PO2, (1966-1970)
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- MUIRHEAD, ROSS, S1c, (1945-1946)
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- Parker, Jim, PO1, (1948-1954)
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- Patton, Thomas, S1c, (1966-1973)
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- Pettinger, Walter, PO3, (1944-1946)
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- Schroer, Franklin, MCPO, (1941-1961)
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- Setters, Walt, SCPO, (1964-1993)
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- Tackett, Curtis, PO1, (1963-1985)
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- Turner, Paul, PO2, (1962-1966)
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Name of Award
Combat Action Ribbon
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Year Awarded
1945
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Details behind Award:
Not Specified
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Last Updated:
Apr 30, 2010 |
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