#escortcarrier

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USS Breton (CVE-23) underway 1943

The USS Breton (CVE-23) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served during World War II and was later reactivated as an aircraft transport vessel in the post-war period. 

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HMS Pursuer Royal Navy Escort Carrier

HMS Pursuer was an Attacker-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy in World War Two. Built in the US in 1942, she was transferred and commissioned into the Royal Navy in July 1943.

Although used primarily as a convoy escort on 3 April 1944, she provided fighter support for an air strike on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway. She subsequently provided anti-submarine screening during the D-Day Normandy landings, participated in raids on shipping around Norway and provided air cover during the landings in Southern France.

With the end of World War Two, she was returned to the US Navy in 1946 and scrapped.

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USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) underway off Hawaii with lifts lowered, July 1944

USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) a US Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier underway off Hawaii with lifts lowered, July 1944. She was sunk by kamikaze attack on 4 Jan 1945 in the Sulu Sea.

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Japanese Escort Carrier, Shimane Maru

Japanese Escort Carrier, Shimane Maru, after being attacked by Avenger aircraft operating from HMS Victorious, 24 July 1945

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USS St. Lo CVE-63 exploding

A major detonation on USS St. Lo (CVE-63), (probably caused by a pair of torpedoes lying almost in the center of a fire caused by a kamikaze strike.

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Royal Navy Escort Carrier HMS Campania

HMS Campania was an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. After the war, the ship was used as a floating exhibition hall for the 1951 Festival of Britain and as the command ship for the 1952 Operation Hurricane, the test of the prototype British atomic bomb.

She was built at Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a refrigerated cargo ship for transporting lamb and mutton from New Zealand, but was requisitioned by the British Government during construction and completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service in early 1944.

Campania operated escorting convoys and doing anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and Arctic theatres. In December 1944, her Swordfish aircraft from a detachment of 813 Squadron sank the German submarine U-365 while the Campania was escorting the Arctic convoy Convoy RA-62.

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US Navy Escort Carrier USS Block Island CVE-21

USS Block Island (CVE-21), an escort carrier of he US Navy. Used as an aircraft ferry and later as part of U-boat hunter0killer groups where her aircraft sank several U-boats. Sunk on 29 May 1944 by U-549.

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HMS Attacker (D02) Northern Ireland 1944

HMS Attacker (D02) was an American-built escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Converted from a merchantman under construction, she was commissioned by the United States Navy on 30 September 1942, as USS Barnes (CVE-7), a Bogue-class escort carrier; she was decommissioned and transferred to the Royal Navy on the same day under the Lend-Lease agreement.

Attacker served throughout the war, first as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. After further conversion by the Royal Navy in October 1943, into an assault carrier, the ship was active in the Mediterranean, and later the war in the Pacific. In late August 1945, Attacker witnessed the Japanese surrender of Penang, in Malaya, as part of Operation Jurist.