#saipan class

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USS SAIPAN (CVL-48) tied up at Toulouse Street Wharf, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). Saipan visite New Orleans over Mardi Gras 1947.

Note: that the carrier still appears to be painted in wartime Camouflage Measure 21.

Photographed on February 18, 1947.

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USS WRIGHT (CC-2) arriving in San Diego, California.

Photographed on June 17, 1963.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Center: NH 97624

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Launch of USS Saipan (CVL-48) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.

Date: July 8, 1945

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USS SAIPAN (CVL-48) at anchor at the British Crown Colony Hong Kong. Douglas AD Skyraiders of Marine Attack Squadron 324 (VMA-324) Vagabonds are parked on the bow.

Photographed in February 1954.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-634756

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USS WRIGHT (CVL-49) operating on training duty, with six North American SNJ Texans on deck lined up for takeoff.

The photo's original caption reads "The stage is set for the final scene of Basic Training: the flight students will qualify six carrier landings in SNJ 'Texans' and the curtain will descend on the graduation finale."

Photographed sometime between 1948 and 1952.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 97618

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USS WRIGHT (CVL-49) docked, on September 27, 1949

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USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-55), USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62), USS LEYTE (CV-32), USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) and USS SAIPAN (CVL-48) as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Bayonne, New Jersey.

Date: August 1961

Dick Leonhardt's Collection: link, link, link