CVE-110 was initially named Winjah Bay (an alternative spelling to Winyah), for a bay off the coast of South Carolina which serves as the estuary of the Pee Dee, Black, and Waccamaw Rivers and is located slightly above Georgetown, S.C. (NS0311016).

Renamed Salerno Bay, 6 November 1943 (three months before her keel was laid down), to commemorate the initial assault of Allied forces on the Italian peninsula, 9 September 1943 (Operation Avalanche). Salerno Bay is a variant term for the Gulf of Salerno, an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of Naples, Italy (NS0311016a).

NS0404215: Light cruiser USS Savannah (CL-42) afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. (Courtesy of the US National Archives and Records Administration, # SC 243636.)

(Maps NS0311016 and NS0311016a courtesy of Google Maps.)

Salerno Bay (CVE-110), possibly in late September 1944.

Broad on, port bow view of the recently commissioned USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) underway, 3 June 1945.

US Navy photo of USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110), location and date unknown.

A TBM Avenger piloted by First Lieutenant Girard Blais, USMCR, attached to VMTB-144 based aboard USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) comes home to make what is believed to be the last carrier landing during the occupation of the Japanese Empire. This was off Formosa when planes from Salerno Bay furnished air support for Chinese troops occupying the island. Photograph received 4 December 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (NARA) (# 80-G-354601).

Gerry explains: "[M]y father, Jack Cronkrite, had [this picture] from his service on the USS Salerno Bay during WWII as a young Marine."

From the ship's War History: "25 March [1946]: Underway to Chesapeake Bay. We are Task Unit 21.8.1 Captain R.K. GAINES, U.S. Navy composed of U.S.S. Salerno Bay (CVE-110), U.S.S. [Reuben] James (DE-153), and U.S.S. [Alexander J.] Luke (DE-577). VMF 114 Major HANSEN U.S.M.C. Commanding is assigned to this vessel as permanent operational air group. VMF 114 made 18 carrier landings. Secured flight operations due to lack of wind. Anchored off Cape Charles."

USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110), 29 May 1946, New York City (USN photo).

USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) off New York City, 29 May 1946.

Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph (# NH 66790).

USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) off New York City, 29 May 1946.

Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph (# NH 66789).

USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) off New York City, 29 May 1946.

Undated (probably 1940s) photo of USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) underway with F4U Corsairs on deck. Location unknown.

A veteran of Asiatic-Pacific warfare, USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) was recommissioned in Boston, June 20, 1951. The crew and guests stand at attention while her flags are hoisted.

(From "All Hands" magazine, August 1951.) (Digitally enhanced by Tom Kermen.)

US Navy photo of USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) in the 1950s, location unknown.

With an unidentified destroyer alongside, TBM-3S/3W Avengers, with Anti-submarine Squadron 32 (VS-32), are spotted on the flight deck of USS Salerno Bay (CVE‑110), sometime in 1951–54 (1952?).

US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1996.253.1398. Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection.

A U.S. Navy Piasecki HUP Retriever of Helicopter Utility Squadron (HU) 2 "Fleet Angels" aboard the escort carrier USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110), in 1952.

U.S. Navy photo from the Salerno Bay 1952 Cruise Book.

A Grumman TBM-3W Avenger of Anti-Submarine Squadron (VS) 26 aboard the escort carrier USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110), in 1952

U.S. Navy photo from the Salerno Bay 1952 Cruise Book.

Port view of USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110), with Anti-Submarine Squadron (VS) 26, off the Virginia Capes, 21 July 1952.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-444357.

Reading orders, date and location unknown.

Parachute Rigger Joseph A. Lonzello, Jr., USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110).

"U.S.S. Salerno Bay Bullhorn," Vol.II, No.24, Tuesday morning, 25 September 1945.

South Boston Naval Annex, circa 30 May 1958. Easily identifiable are Salerno Bay (CVE-110), Gilbert Islands (CVE-107), Marcus Island (CVHE-77), Manila Bay (CVU-61), Kasaan Bay (CVHE-69), and Sargent Bay (CVU-83); also in this line were Shipley Bay (CVHE-85), Natoma Bay (CVU-62), and Savo Island (CVHE-78), and maybe a tenth, unidentified former "bird farm."

The skyline is the Customs House Tower, which these days you can't find from the clutter of the new high rises.

"Salerno Bay's Last Voyage"

"The aircraft carrier Salerno Bay is the last ship of the moth-ball fleet to leave Boston bound for scrapping in Spain."

The Christian Science Monitor, 14 December 1961.