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	USS Casablanca (CVE-55) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The USS Casablanca (CVE-55) (also ACV-55) was a United States Navy escort aircraft carrier, lead ship of her class, named after the city of Casablanca, Morocco.
		Casablanca was launched 5 April 1943 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, Vancouver, Washington, under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, acquired by the Navy 8 July 1943, and commissioned the same day, Commander W.
		Casablanca operated in the Straits of Juan de Fuca as a training ship for escort carrier crews from the time of her commissioning through August 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Casablanca_(CVE-55) (421 words)

	Casablanca class escort carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Casablanca class of escort aircraft carriers was the largest class of this type ever built.
		Although designated as escort carriers, the Casablanca class was far more frequently used in fleet operations, where their light wings of fighters and bombers could combine to provide the effectiveness of a much larger ship.
		The shining moment of the class came in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, when a task force composed of these ships and a group of Destroyer Escorts gave battle against the Japanese main force and succeeded in turning them back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casablanca_class_escort_carrier (333 words)

	CVE-55 Casablanca class
		The Casablanca class ships were relatively small at 10,200 tons (incidentally about the size of ship envisaged in the 1920s and 1930s small carrier designs), but possessed a more useful and larger hangar deck than the preceding conversions - not unexpected in a ship that was designed from keel up an escort carrier.
		The new carriers were armed with a single 5” L/38 on the stern, 16 40mm L/56 in twins around the flightdeck, and numbers of 20mm L/70 guns.
		Carriers of the Casablanca class participated in every major fleet operation after their commissioning, serving in support, ASW, aircraft replacement, aircraft ferrying and transport roles.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/carriers/casablanca.htm (404 words)

	'Kaiser / Casablanca' Class Escort Carriers
		Escort aircraft carriers - also known informally (in the US Navy) as "jeep carriers" and (in the British Navy at least) as "Woolworth" carriers - were originally developed primarily in order to give anti-submarine cover for Atlantic convoys.
		The Kaiser or Casablanca Class were the first escort carriers to be built as such from the keel up.
		In the Leyte operation 14 of the Seventh Fleet's 18 escort carriers, including all six carriers of Taffy Three - the task unit at the centre of the Battle off Samar - were ships of the Casablanca Class.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/LEYTE_Casablancas_.htm (273 words)

	Murderer's Row: U.S. Aircraft Carriers
		So powerful was US air defense becoming, both on the carriers and their escorts and in the air, that the Japanese send their rookie pilots in deliberate suicide attacks, crashing into the ships along with their planes.
		A clear sign of the offensive/defensive ratio of carriers in 1942 is the fact that USS Enterprise was solely responsible for the destruction of Akagi, Kaga and Hiryu,while USS Yorktown of the same class was unable to defend itself against a single carrier's strike power, Hiryu's.
		Carrier battles were, in 1942, thus like the battlecruiser matches of the earlier war: both sides carried the weapons to defeat the other side many times over, but neither was even close to well protected.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/ships/carriers (1055 words)

	Class
		The structure of a class is determined by the class variables which represent the state of an object of that class and the behaviour is given by a set of methods associated with the class.
		Classes describe the rules by which objects behave; those objects, described by a particular class, are known as "instances" of said class.
		A proper class cannot be an element of a set or a class and is not subject to the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory; thereby a number of paradoxes of naive set theory are avoided.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/cl/class.html (6335 words)

	Amphibious_assault_ship
		The heart of the American fleet are the ships of the Tarawa class, which dates back to the 1970s, and the newer and larger Wasp class ships that debuted in 1989.
		Delays in the construction of the Iwo Jima class saw other conversions made as a stopgap measure; three Essex-class aircraft carriers and one Casablanca-class escort carrier were converted into amphibs, the Boxer and Thetis Bay classes.
		In general the ships carry the troops from the port of embarkation to the drop point for the assault and the craft carry the troops from the ship to the shore.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Amphibious_assault_ship (989 words)

	USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Lunga Point (CVE-94), originally Alazon Bay, was a Casablanca class escort carrier laid down by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Washington, 19 January 1944; launched 11 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		The escort carrier sailed 27 December from Manus to supply air support for Sixth Army landing operations at Lingayen Gulf.
		On 17 January the support carriers were withdrawn and returned to Ulithi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Lunga_Point_(CVE-94) (652 words)

	Gallery
		She was caught and sunk near Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Japanese carrier aircraft during the Japanese carrier raid into the Indian Ocean in spring 1942.
		HMS Furious, Aircraft Carrier 1918 - A carrier with an island in the middle of the flight deck.
		This model of the original carrier for the USN was scratch-built and donated to the museum by CDR Josiah "Cy" Kirby, USNR (Ret).
	www.steelnavy.com /gallery_aircraft_carriers.htm (3070 words)

	New Orleans class war records
		In February she escorted carrier raids against Truk, during which she and her sister Minneapolis intercepted and sank the small training ship (former cruiser) Katori and the destroyer Maikaze.
		At Leyte Gulf in October she was a part of TF34, and as part of a light surface strike force sank the damaged Japanese light carrier Chiyoda and the undamaged destroyer Hatsutsuki.
		In February 1942 she was part of the screen for the carrier Yorktown during a raid by TF17 against Rabaul, but this had to be aborted.
	www.world-war.co.uk /US/newo_war.html (2293 words)

	:: Print Version ::
		She was a Casablanca class carrier manufactured by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. out of Vancouver, Wash., and named after an Alaskan Bay on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island.
		Though she had the ability to defend, the slow cargo carrier was not a battleship.
		The tough little carrier, however, through the reckless winds of war, found her finest hour in a harrowing duel with the powerful Japanese IJN Centre Force.
	www.montrosepress.com /articles/2004/08/17/courage/16.prt (1107 words)

	Casablanca-class Escort Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of the fifty carriers of this class built, only five were assigned Atlantic duty and of these five only one, USS Mission Bay, remained on anti-submarine duty to the end of the war.
		Concept/Program: Construction of this class was proposed by the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, owner of the Kaiser shipyards.
		It would not be uncommon for a transport carrier to bring a load of aircraft to the front, serve as a strike/CAP carrier during a major offensive, and then return to transport duties.
	www.hostultra.com /~Exidor/USS_Manila_Bay/Casablanca.html (1093 words)

	JAG Hit TV Show: Cmdr. Harmon Rabb and Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie investigate, prosecute, and defend members of the Navy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The original USS Farragut, DD 300, was a Clemson class destroyer, commissioned in June of 1920 and decommissioned in April of 1930.
		She was one of a new class of ships designed from the keel up to embark, transport, and land assault Marines by means of helicopters.
		She was an Independence Class light fleet carrier and was the first US carrier in the South China Sea in January 1945 and the first in Tokyo bay in August 1945.
	www.jagarchive.com /Miscellaneous/VesselsOfJAG.htm (3045 words)

	USS Mullinnix DD-944 - Ship Pictures
		Liscome Bay (CVE-56), a Casablanca-class escort carrier, was laid down 9 December 1942 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Washington, under a Maritime Commission contract; launched 19 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		Ship’s Cook 3rd Class Doris "Dorie" Miller assigned to the USS West Virginia on 3 August 1941 and was serving in that battleship when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941.
		Assigned to the newly constructed USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) in the spring of 1943, Miller was on board that escort carrier during Operation Galvanic, the seizure of Makin and Tarawa Atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
	www.ussmullinnix.org /LiscomeBaySinking.html (1195 words)

	Edward Balling builds Gambier Bay
		It told the story of the Casablanca Class Escort Carrier (U.S.S. Gambier Bay) and her crew.
		Since none of this class remains today (and it's been over 50 years since the end of the war), the task was an uphill battle for me.
		A large fl "73" was carried on the forward end of the flight deck.
	www.ussgambierbay-vc10.com /ed_balling/about_edballing.htm (1719 words)

	Escort Carrier Notes
		The execution of the "Germany first" policy is shown in the distribution of auxiliary carriers in 1942 and 1943 wherein only 15% of productive capacity went to hold in the Pacific and the major effort was to keep Europe supplied through the U-boat blockade and to harass the Nazi in the Mediterranean.
		The Casablanca Class were built by Kaiser using mass production techniques to a fast transport (P-1), design for speed of construction, but were intended as escort carriers from the ground up.
		This class is lengthened from the Casablanca Class, more nearly Sangamon Class hulls, with other improvements based on experience.
	www.ww2pacific.com /notecve.html (934 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS St. Lô (CVE-63) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In mid-August she was transferred to Manus, in the Admiralty Islands north of New Guinea, and from there supported Allied landings on Morotai, Moluccas, on September 15-23.
		Lô sailed as one of six carriers of Rear Admiral C. Sprague's Task Force 3 for the invasion of Leyte, the Philippines.
		Japanese surface forces sank the escort carrier Gambier Bay, destroyers Johnston and Hoel, and destroyer escort Samuel D. Roberts.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_079100_ussstlo.htm (307 words)

	USS RUDYERD BAY CVE-81
		At Eniwetok, she joined (Task Group)TG 30.8, the fast carrier forces' replenishment group, with which she arrived with at Manus on the 31st.
		The tiny island of Iwo Jima is just under five miles long and two and a half miles wide at its widest point and has been described by many as a "pork chop" when viewed from the air.
		By the end of July, the escort carrier had completed a shipyard overhaul and had been re assigned to plane ferry duty.
	home.sprynet.com /~ernynsv/rudyerd.htm (935 words)

	Casablanca (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca.
		The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa.
		It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and his need to do the right thing by helping her husband, Resistance hero Victor Laszlo, escape from Casablanca and continue his fight against the Nazis.
	www.kiwipedia.com /casablanca--movie-.html (155 words)

	INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC MODELERS
		Her keel was laid down on July 10, 1943 and was launched on November 22 of that same year.
		She carried a complement of 18 FM-2 Wildcats and 12 Avenger TBM-1C’s of Composite Squadron 10 (VC-10) and served by a crew of over 800.
		It was also the only aircraft carrier that was sunk by naval gunfire.
	www.ipmsphilippines.com /features/gambierbay/gambierbay.htm (626 words)

	Paintings #2: The Pacific Air War
		An F4U Corsair is on final approach to a Casablanca class escort carrier during WW II.
		This is because the Corsair was initially thought to be unsuitable for carrier use due to visibility problems with the long nose during landing.
		This Oscar is carrying a 500-pound bomb towards the burning U.S. carrier Franklin during the invasion of Okinawa in April of 1945.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /navalwar/painting2.htm (1859 words)

	USS Anzio (CVE 57)
		Auxiliary aircraft carrier ACV 57 was laid down on 12 December 1942 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash. under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1094); named ALIKULA BAY on 22 January 1943; renamed CORAL SEA on 3 April 1943; launched on 1 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		The escort carrier was underway on 3 January 1944 for a series of exercises in Hawaiian waters.
		The carrier had moved south to Guam on 17 June to begin softening-up operations against that island but returned to Saipan the next day to assist the bogged-down American forces.
	navysite.de /cve/cve57.htm (1400 words)

	LPH-10 History
		She is an Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship and is the second United States Navy Ship to bear the name TRIPOLI.
		The first was a Casablanca class aircraft carrier (CVE-64) which operated during World War II and the Korean War.
		In 1982, she was also chosen as the test platform for the XV-15 experimental tilt-rotor aircraft, the precursor of the V-22 Osprey.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/5871/lph10.html (890 words)

	USS Kasaan Bay (CVE 69)
		Planes from the carrier bombed and strafed German positions, destroying hundreds of enemy vehicles and tanks and downing two enemy aircraft over the beach.
		Following a cruise carrying planes to Casablanca in late October, KASAAN BAY was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and arrived San Diego 2 January 1945.
		The escort carrier returned to San Francisco 28 December and sailed for the East Coast 29 January 1946, arriving Boston 22 February.
	navysite.de /cve/cve69.htm (535 words)

	Casablanca : Home Decor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Casablanca answers these requirements with Great him; a ventilator with the exceptional air movement, to work unique contemporary, and lasting quality.
		A port on the Atlantic Ocean, Casablanca is Morocco's biggest city and chief port.
		The town of Casablanca was founded in 1515 by the Portuguese, who had destroyed the town...
	www.primaryobjectgallery.com /58-Casablanca.html (808 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		The task unit comprised six escort carriers, screened by three destroyers and four destroyer escorts, and was known by its voice radio call as “Taffy 3.” Under the command of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, eighteen escort carriers, divided into three “Taffy” units, maintained air supremacy over Leyte Gulf and eastern Leyte.
		They were composed of carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers in three prongs attacking from the south, center and north.
		An urgent call for help went out and the escort carriers steamed eastward and launched planes that performed seemingly impossible feats: scoring hits with torpedoes, bombs, and strafing until their ammunition ran out, then making dummy runs to break the enemy formation and delay its advance.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0306.htm (1155 words)

	CVE-55 Casablanca
		A total of 50 of were laid down, launched and commissioned within the space of a year, 1943 and 1944.
		The resulting ships of the Casablanca class were relatively small at 10,200 tons (about the size of envisaged in the 1920s and 1930s small carrier designs).
		The first class designed from keel up an escort carrier, the Casablanca class featured a larger and more useful hangar deck than the preceding conversions.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cve-55.htm (304 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List: US Escort Carriers, S4 Hulls
		Served as an ASW carrier in the Atlantic, then as a transport and training carrier in the Pacific.
		Served as an ASW carrier in the Atlantic, then as a combat, transport and training carrier in the Pacific.
		Served as a transport carrier in the Pacific, then as an ASW and transport carrier in the Atlantic.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/us_esc2.htm (3396 words)

	USS Manila Bay (CVE 61)
		USS MANILA BAY was the seventh CASABLANCA - class escort carrier.
		During the next 4 days she remained east of the embattled island as ships and planes of the Fast Carrier Task Force repulsed the Japanese Fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and inflicted staggering losses on the enemy, thus crippling the Imperial Navy's air strength permanently.
		Assigned to the Escort Carrier Group (TG 77.4), MANILA BAY departed 12 October for waters east of the Philippines.
	navysite.de /cve/cve61.htm (2046 words)

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