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air group and send it into
Quonset Point, Rhode Island. She also maintained way on and headed back to Quonset Point while damage control, fire, and rescue parties worked feverishly to control fires, to rescue the injured, and to recover the dead. The most severely injured men were carried to Quonset Point in a helicopter lift, and
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in August extended her Far
Eastern tour and brought duty in Vietnamese waters in October and November. Her next 7th Fleet tour of duty, during the summer and fall of 1965, brought more duty off the coast of Vietnam, but the service was not nearly so extensive as the she would perform during her final
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students dressed as pirates boarded the aircraft carrier in the early morning hours undetected. While some began soliciting donations from the Navy crew for a local charity, others entered the bridge. The public address system was turned on. "Now hear this!" announced Paul Lennon, a medical student.
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to issue two general fire alarms and within seconds a series of explosions rocked the ship when the port side catapult accumulator burst and released vaporized lubricating oil which was detonated by some unknown heat source. Though severely damaged internally, the warship managed to launch the entire
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The aircraft carrier retired from the vicinity of Honshu on 18 February, fueled the next day, and then steamed toward Iwo Jima to provide close support. She continued that duty from 20 to 22 February before retiring for a fueling rendezvous on the 23rd. The following day, she and her sister carriers
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arrived in Long Beach on 9 November and, on the 14th, entered the Long Beach Naval
Shipyard for a five-month yard overhaul. The aircraft carrier resumed active service on 30 April 1969 and conducted normal operations along the California coast for the remainder of the year and into January 1970. On
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During the training cruise, an explosion occurred in her number 1 fireroom on 27 April. 11 men were killed. She put into Guantánamo Bay on the 29th, completed repairs in a week, and returned to sea to continue her shakedown training. On 7 May, she concluded training operations and set a course back
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modernization. Over the next two years, she underwent a transformation that increased her displacement, length, and beam. Her flight deck was strengthened and widened to accommodate jet aircraft, her island was replaced. She also received many modifications to other equipment, such as catapults and
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on 29 May. Her last deployment brought more of the same duty that she had seen on the previous one, antisubmarine protection for TF 77, ship identification work, and search and rescue services. She concluded that tour of duty on 28 October when she departed
Yokosuka to return to the United States.
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dropped the remainder off there before heading to New York for extensive repairs. The explosion cost her 103 officers and men dead and over 200 others injured, most of them severely burned, the second highest casualty count in the post-war peacetime U.S. Navy. A memorial to the sailors who died in
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and the rest of TG 58.1 left the vicinity of
Okinawa for rest and relaxation at Ulithi. She remained at the fleet anchorage from 30 April to 9 May. On the latter day, she stood out of Ulithi and, after exercises in the area, headed back to Okinawa on the 10th. The aircraft carrier resumed support
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modernization. The two most notable changes were the addition of an enclosed hurricane bow to lessen the potential for damage in heavy weather and of an angled flight deck to improve the efficiency of air operations. She completed repairs and alterations by 11 March 1955. On 22 April 1955, the
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on 7 November. She remained there until the first week in
January 1946 when she returned to sea, bound for Hawaii transporting a load of planes and a draft of men. After conducting some training operations in the Hawaiian Islands, the carrier headed back to
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and the other fast carriers began dividing their time between strikes on
Okinawa and the surrounding islands in direct support of the occupying troops and raids on the Japanese home islands, primarily Kyushu, in distant support of the operation. On 7 April,
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determined that hazards related to hydraulic catapults were previously known and had not yet "led to serious consequences." The inquiry's conclusions eventually led to the Navy's abandoning hydro-pneumatic catapults in favor of steam-driven launch systems.
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She arrived in Ulithi lagoon on 8 February and became a unit of Task Group (TG) 58.1. The aircraft carrier remained at Ulithi only two days, departing the atoll with TG 58.1 on the 10th to make air attacks on the
Japanese home islands in support of the
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and the other units of TF 58 began their retirement from
Japanese waters and toward Okinawa to begin direct support for the landings. On 23 March, she began launching raids against Okinawa and the surrounding islands, concentrating primarily on
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arrived at
Quonset Point on the 21st to disembark her air group. On 1 March, she moved to New York for a shipyard availability and a post-deployment standdown period. Early in April, she returned to sea to conduct carrier qualifications off
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aircraft as it executed 44 short takeoffs and landings and six vertical takeoffs and landings, the ship steaming at various speeds to generate different velocities of wind-over-the-deck. She was the prime recovery vessel for the unmanned
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has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" Alarms for general quarters, atomic and chemical attacks were sounded, rousing the crew from their bunks. Marines escorted the students off the ship. No charges were filed.
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The aircraft carrier continued to give support to the Okinawa operation, to provide combat air patrol to intercept enemy air raids, and to attack the airfields that were the points of origin for those raids. On 28 April,
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to New York. After a stop at Norfolk to disembark her air group, the carrier reentered the New York Naval Shipyard on 25 May to begin post-shakedown availability. That summer, she began normal operations with the
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arrived in the New York Naval Shipyard for extensive repairs on 12 June. In addition to repairing the damaged area, the shipyard made major modifications originally scheduled for a later date. She received the
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before heading north. After the air groups carried out the training sorties on 12 February, the ships fueled at sea on the 14th and then headed toward the launching point some 200 km southeast of
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Secretary of the Navy came aboard and presented medals and letters of commendation to 178 of her crew in recognition of their actions on 26 May 1954. As of 1 August 1955, she was part of
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duty for the Okinawa campaign on 12 May. Again, she divided her time between direct support for the troops fighting on the island and sweeps against the Kyushu airfields. Early in June,
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s final seven years of active service, which included four more assignments with the 7th Fleet, coincided with the period of direct involvement of United States armed forces in the
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elevators, to accomplish the same purpose. In October 1952, while completing those alterations, she was re-designated an attack aircraft carrier (CVA-20). On 13 November, Captain
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where she arrived on 30 March. Early in April, the warship set out on a voyage to the east coast with CVG-19 embarked. She transited the Panama Canal at mid-month and arrived at
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erupted. Again, she earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. The final deployment of that period was characterized by a return to more normal duty, training and port calls.
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remained offshore in heavy seas and the twenty Marine helicopters she carried were invaluable in providing assistance and supplies to the stricken residents.
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helped to protect TG 58.1 from air raids and shot down three intruders. On the negative side, her air group lost one plane to antiaircraft fire over Japan.
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set a course back toward Japan. On the 25th, her air group participated in another series of attacks on the Tokyo region of Japan. Retiring on the 26th,
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on 1 March. TF 58 headed back to Ulithi on the 3rd and reentered that anchorage the following day for eight days of rest and relaxation.
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That phase of the operation lasted until early on the morning of the initial landings on 1 April. After the assault force went ashore,
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The third deployment of the period, from August 1958 to January 1959 with ATG-4 aboard, came as an emergency assignment occasioned by
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suffered a damaged flight deck when TF 38 (on 27 May the fleet, task forces, and task groups changed designation) steamed through
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until her decommissioning. During her fourth tour of duty in the Far East, carried out between October 1960 and May 1961, the
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began launching aircraft for the qualifications. Ten minutes later, white "smoke" emanating from Hangar Bay 1 caused Captain
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and repairs. The ship arrived at her destination on the 11th and underwent repairs until the 27th. She cleared the base at
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embarked upon her next to last 7th Fleet assignment. Throughout that tour of duty, she served with the larger carriers on
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mission and on 9 November 1967 recovered the spacecraft which had splashed down 10 mi (16 km) from the ship.
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remained in reserve for almost four years. On 29 October 1950, she moved to the New York Naval Shipyard to receive her
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on the 29th. On New Year's Day 1945, the carrier stood out of San Diego to continue her voyage west. She arrived in
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aviators claimed at least two torpedo hits on the battleship at the cost of a single plane from her air group.
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completed trials, shakedown training, and post-shakedown availability by 14 December when she departed
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earned three battle stars for World War II service and five battle stars during the Vietnam conflict.
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and normal evolutions along the California coast. During that time, she made five deployments to the
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to participate in the celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Allied victory in the
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A court of inquiry into the explosion chaired by Quonset Point Commander Fleet Air
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and surrounding waters. Her planes ranged the length of the island chain from
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continued operations in the Japanese home islands in support of
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and launched on 26 February 1944, sponsored by the wife of
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in a ceremony attended by more than 1,400, including the
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where she underwent 11 weeks of shakedown training with
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1843:"Disaster in Rhode Island Waters: The USS Bennington"
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1398:search and rescue services for downed aviators
1037:set off for the waters off Florida to conduct
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1540:Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation
908:on 1 July in company with the rest of TF 38.
575:in 1777 near Bennington, Vermont, during the
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1249:divided her time between deployments to the
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2037:Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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1029:W.R. Campbell, USMC reported for duty on
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116:Learn how and when to remove this message
2031:This article incorporates text from the
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1400:. The deployment ended on 21 April, and
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19:For other ships with the same name, see
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1425:United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
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1762:Edwards, Christopher (January 2011).
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705:in her original configuration, 1944.
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358:34 ft 2 in (10.41 m)
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1550:Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
1484:Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
900:. On 9 June, she set a course for
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1528:Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
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987:after her SCB-27A modernization.
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1877:"Education: Incident in Sydney"
1544:Gallantry Cross Medal with Palm
1094:Naval Air Station Quonset Point
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1847:New England Historical Society
1793:Enyart, John J. (April 1955).
1522:National Defense Service Medal
1501:Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
492:deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
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1841:Caisse, Leo (29 March 2020).
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1518:(with Asia and Europe clasps)
1516:Navy Occupation Service Medal
1045:since her recommissioning by
624:on 21 December and moored at
2757:Space capsule recovery ships
1572:'s scoreboard in August 1945
1329:Vietnam War and later career
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1090:United States Atlantic Fleet
370:Babcock & Wilcox boilers
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1295:Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1251:United States Seventh Fleet
1220:United States Pacific Fleet
1064:occurred on 18 February by
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906:San Pedro Bay (Philippines)
825:aircraft helped stifle the
718:to conduct rehearsals over
606:James B. Sykes in command.
413:(61 km/h; 38 mph)
65:"USS Bennington" CV-20
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2747:Maritime incidents in 1954
2068:, her history and her crew
1733:Historical Marker Database
1729:"U.S.S. Bennington CVA-20"
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1511:World War II Victory Medal
1439:Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
1058:Marine Attack Squadron 211
783:Those attacks went forward
577:American Revolutionary War
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1606:making crash landing on
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463:20 mm (0.8 in)
454:40 mm (1.6 in)
350:93 ft (28.3 m)
2722:Ships built in Brooklyn
1496:American Campaign Medal
1412:. The carrier departed
1410:Battle of the Coral Sea
1319:Christmas flood of 1964
1025:, under the command of
1019:Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
743:Combat Air Patrol (CAP)
694:Operations off Iwo Jima
596:Congressman Melvin Maas
592:New York Naval Shipyard
445:5 in (127 mm)
200:New York Naval Shipyard
2752:Aircraft carrier fires
2336:Modernization programs
1969:www.uss-Bennington.org
1944:www.uss-Bennington.org
1919:www.uss-Bennington.org
1768:Naval History Magazine
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259:CVA-20, 1 October 1952
1534:Vietnam Service Medal
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1443:Bremerton, Washington
1362:San Diego, California
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1068:Carl E. Schmitt in a
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2015:Tri-Service Tiltwing
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1354:Tonkin Gulf incident
1266:University of Sydney
1212:Naval Base San Diego
1108:steamed through the
865:Sasebo Naval Arsenal
789:aircraft struck the
712:landings on Iwo Jima
620:. She transited the
550:in service with the
262:CVS-20, 30 June 1959
182:Battle of Bennington
50:improve this article
1895:on 12 February 2010
1490:China Service Medal
1243:conflict in Vietnam
1153:At 0600 on 26 May,
1110:Strait of Gibraltar
1023:Marine Air Group 14
779:invasion of Okinawa
616:and headed for the
524:Grumman TBF Avenger
512:Grumman F6F Hellcat
2566:Daigo Fukuryū Maru
2013:Sunday, Terry L.,
1764:"Fire Down Below!"
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1677:LTV XC-142
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