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CVE-105 was initially named St. Joseph Bay, for
a bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida, located in Gulf County between Apalichicola and Panama City (NS0310506).
Renamed Commencement Bay, 10 July 1944, for a bay of Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Wash.,
and near the shipyard where she was built (NS0310506a).
(Maps courtesy of Google Maps
Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman..) |
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World War II
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Stern view, 135° off centerline, 20 October 1944. Todd Pacific Shipyards
Inc. neg. no. 55-50. BuAer photo 180018.
| David Buell |
NS0310503 |
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Commissioning Program. Monday, 27 November 1944.
| From the collection of Pearl Harbor Survivor Hoyt "Bud" Colburn, plankowner
yeoman aboard USS Commencement Bay.
Courtesy of Carol Edgemon Hipperson, author of
"Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor
and World War II in the Pacific." |
NS0310503a |
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NS0310503b |
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NS0310503c |
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The best of the escort carriers. Note the addition of two 5"/38AA forward of
the island. Their 10' wider beam also made this class much more stable in rough seas.
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Port broadside view of USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105) underway,
her hull painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 16A, circa 1944. Commencement Bay
was the lead ship of a 19-ship class of escort carriers. Commissioned on 27 November 1944, the ship
spent her entire career as a training carrier, based in the Pacific Northwest.
US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum,
photo # 1996.488.035.005. Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection.
| Mike Green
Robert Hurst
Ron Reeves |
NS0310507 |
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USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105) enters San Francisco Bay, circa
1945.
U.S. Navy photo from the Commencement Bay
1944–1946 Cruise Book.
| Robert Hurst |
NS0310508 |
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A U.S. Navy General Motors FM-2 Wildcat is launched from USS Commencement
Bay (CVE-105), 1 January 1945. The escort carrier was conducting carrier qualification landings
and take-offs.
U.S. Navy photo from the Commencement Bay
1944–1946 Cruise Book.
| Robert Hurst |
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A U.S. Navy General Motors FM-2 Wildcat over the flight deck of USS
Commencement Bay (CVE-105), 1 January 1945. The escort carrier was conducting carrier
qualification landings and take-offs.
U.S. Navy photo from the Commencement Bay
1944–1946 Cruise Book.
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USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105) arrives in San Francisco, 16
December 1945. Note camouflage Ms. 21 and 40-mm AA guns alongside the flight deck.
| Gerd Matthes, Germany |
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