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	USS Saipan (CVL-48) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first USS Saipan (CVL-48) was a light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class of carrier.
		Saipan was laid down on 10 July 1944 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, New Jersey, launched on 8 July 1945, sponsored by Mrs.
		Saipan then returned to Norfolk, arrived on the 31st, and sailed again on 28 January 1949.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_saipan__cvl_48_.html (1964 words)

	USS Saipan (CVL-48) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saipan was laid down on 10 July 1944 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, launched on 8 July 1945, sponsored by Mrs.
		On the 24th, she was ordered to embark two of the Navy's latest type helicopter, the XHJS-1, and three Marine Corps HRP-1 helicopters and proceeded north to Greenland to assist in the rescue of eleven airmen downed on the ice cap.
		Departing Norfolk on Christmas day, the CVL arrived off Cape Farewell on the 28th and prepared to launch the helicopters as soon as weather allowed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Saipan_(CVL-48) (2025 words)

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		SAIPAN plied the Atlantic and Pacific, employed in maintaining an uneasy Korean truce and conducting several humanitarian missions in the Caribbean.
		SAIPAN's operational career began in July 1979 when she was diverted from Fleet Refresher Training to "Special Contingency Operations" for possible non-combatant evacuation of American personnel from Nicaragua during that country's civil war.
		SAIPAN, along with her sister amphibious assault ships, is designed to put troops on hostile shores, serving as primary landing ships for assault operations of Marine expeditionary units.
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	CVL-48 USS Saipan
		Saipan then returned to Norfolk, arrived on the 31st, and sailed againon 28 January 1949.
		From November 1949 to March 1951, Saipan remained on the east coast,operating from the Virginia Capes south.
		For over two years, Saipan continued 2d Fleet operations, interruptingthem for midshipman cruises during the summers of 1952 and 1953 and foran overhaul.
	www.navyhistory.com /CVl48Saipan.html (1508 words)

	USN Ships--USS Saipan (CVL-48)
		USS Saipan, lead ship of a pair of 14,500-ton small aircraft carriers built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in July 1946.
		In October 1953, Saipan transited the Panama Canal and soon crossed the Pacific to begin a 7th Fleet deployment that included a mission delivering aircraft to French forces in Indo-China in April 1954.
		Saipan was redesignated CC-3 in January 1964, but was again reclassified in September of that year, becoming a major communications relay ship with hull number AGMR-2.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/cvl48.htm (698 words)

	LHA-2 Saipan Expeditionary Strike Group
		USS Saipan’s (LHA 2) mission is to embark a Marine Landing Force to conduct opposed assault or non-combatant operations.
		At sea, during amphibious operations, USS Saipan is a floating city with a population of nearly 3,000 Sailors and Marines, fully capable of conducting independent operations anywhere in the world.
		Saipan’s operational career began in July of 1979 when the ship was diverted from Fleet Refresher Training to "Special Contingency Operations" for possible non-combatant evacuation of American personnel from Nicaragua during that country’s civil war.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/lha-2.htm (729 words)

	USS Saipan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Saipan, after the island of Saipan, one of the Northern Mariana Islands that was a scene of heavy fighting in World War II.
		The first Saipan (CVL-48) was commissioned as a light aircraft carrier in 1946, converted to the command ship Arlington (AGMR-2) and recommissioned in 1966, serving until 1970.
		The second Saipan (LHA-2) is an amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1977 and on active service as of 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Saipan (156 words)

	CV-48 Saipan
		Plans for Saipan’s assault were scheduled for June 15, 1944 almost one week after the invasion of Europe.
		One of the most lamentable events of the battle for Saipan involved the mass suicide of hundreds of families, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the high cliffs at the island's northernmost point.
		After the fall of Saipan, Premier Hideko Tojo stated that Japan had came face-to-face with a national crisis, a crisis that was unprecedented in its history.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cv-48.htm (2239 words)

	CV-63 USS Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier Exhibit, Pictures, Stories.
		The USS Kitty Hawk holds about 85 airplanes, more than 6000 military personnel, it carriers as much as 1.2 million pounds of conventional weapons, it has trucks, fairly large boats for the captain and the admiral, it can travel more than 32 knots and is one of most feared military machines in the world.
		The USS Kitty Hawk's length is 1062.5 feet (323.8 meters), its Flight Deck Width is 252 feet (76.8 meters) Width at sea level is 130 feet (39 meters).
		The USS Kitty Hawk is a long way right now from the state that gave it its name, but a Wilmington banker wants to give it a home here after it's retired.
	www.yellowairplane.com /USS_Kitty_Hawk.htm (1608 words)

	USS Saipan I
		On the 24th, she was ordered to embark two of the Navy's latest type helicopter, the XHJS-1, and three Marine Corps HRP-1 helicopters and proceeded north to Greenland to assist in the rescue of eleven airmen downed on the icecap.
		For over two years, Saipan continued 2d Fleet operations, interrupting them for midshipman cruises during the summers of 1952 and 1953 and for an overhaul.
		On the first of that month, she sailed for Bayonne, N.J., where she began inactivation and was decommissioned on 3 October 1957.
	www.navyhistory.com /cruiser/saipanI.html (1854 words)

	Dawn of the Super Carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The USS Oriskany (CV 34) was the first carrier modernized under this project and began conversion in 1947(4).
		As a result, the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), commissioned on September 7, 1968, was outfitted with eight, two-story boilers to power its four main propulsion plants.
		The USS Harry Truman is under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia and is scheduled to be commissioned in July 1998.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/students/millerj/Dawn.htm (912 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Photo Index: USS SAIPAN (CVL-48)
		USS Saipan (CVL-48) underway at sea, with eight FH-1 Phantom jet fighters on her flight deck.
		USS Saipan (CVL-48) off Tourane (Danang), Indo-China, on 18 April 1954, just prior to launching twenty-five AU-1 Corsair aircraft, which were flown ashore for delivery to the French.
		USS Saipan (CVL-48) underway circa the mid-1950s, with eleven AD-1 Skyraider attack planes parked on her flight deck, aft.
	www.navsource.org /archives/02/48.htm (511 words)

	USS Saipan (CVL-48) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the 24th, she was order ed to embark two of the Navy's latest type helicopter, the XHJS-1, and three Marine Corps HRP-1 helicopters and proceeded north to Greenland to assist in the rescue of eleven airmen downed on the ice cap.
		Departing Norfolk on Christmas day, the CVL arriv ed off Cape Farewell on the 28th and prepared to launch the helicopters as soon as weather allowed.
		In October 1953, she departed the east coast and steamed for the Panama Canal and the Paci fic.
	www.worldwar2database.com /~ironwomn/saipan.html (1984 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers, Part III
		The ship was launched Apr. 29, 1945, as Coral Sea at the New York Naval Shipyard but was renamed Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 8, 1945, in honor of the 32nd President who had led the country through the war and who had died on Apr. 12, 1945.
		Feb 11, 1947 - USS Langley (CVL 27) was decommissioned at Philadelphia and transferred to France under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program Jan. 8, 1951.
		USS Oriskany (CV 34), the first of nine carriers modernized under this project, began conversion at the New York Naval Shipyard on 1 Oct. 1947.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-hist3.html (902 words)

	USS Saipan (LHA 2) homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She was commissioned on July 14, 1946, under the command of Captain John G. Crommelin.
		Saipan plied the Atlantic and Pacific employed in maintaining an uneasy Korean truce and performing several Humanitarian missions in the Caribbean.
		On April 8, 1965, she was renamed USS Arlington (AGMR-2) in honor of Arlington County, Virginia, the site of one of the Navy’s first wireless test stations.
	www.saipan.navy.mil /html/ships.html (184 words)

	GUESTBOOK: Retiring the carrier Kennedy -- (HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
		Congress is set to grant a one-year stay of execution for the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, throwing a wrench into Navy plans to mothball the 38-year-old ship and invest an additional $200 million per year in new and cheaper-to-operate vessels.
		I was aboard the USS SAIPAN CVL-48 which was commissioned in 1946 and for 1.2 years.
		Although decommissioning the USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CV-67), (named in honor of our 35th President of the United States), would be to some (including myself) personally tragic and also dampen the morale of many, she is an awesome ship that continues to make history in so many ways.
	home.hamptonroads.com /guestbook/guestbook.cfm?id=255 (1095 words)

	USN Ship Types--Saipan class small aircraft carriers (CVL)
		Built from the first as aircraft carriers, the new carriers' design was based on the hull and machinery of the 13,600 ton Baltimore class heavy cruisers, allowing better hull subdivision, improved protection, greater magazine volume, a stronger flight deck, expanded air group and slightly higher speed than in the Independence class.
		She and her sister, USS Wright, served continuously through the later 1940s and into the mid-1950s, both as training carriers and in combat roles with air groups for either anti-submarine warfare or close-air support of ground forces.
		Saipan's command ship conversion was cancelled, but she was reconfigured as a communications relay ship, reentering service as USS Arlington in 1966.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/cv/cvl48cl.htm (758 words)

	USS Arlington (AGMR-2) History
		September 1946 to April 1947 when, reassigned to Norfolk as homeport, she departed the Gulf of Mexico, participated inexercises in the Caribbean then proceeded to Philadelphia for overhaul.
		If any historic discrepancies are found in the above text please E-mail me with the corrections and the source of the corrections.
		Charles (Chuck) Preston SN (6/66 to 3/68) advised that the Arlington took a short trip to N. Korea in January of 68 in hopes of assisting in the retaking of the USS Pueblo from N. Korea.
	www.ussarlington.com /gmr2his.htm (1950 words)

	USS Saipan (CVL-48) to visit Norway [Archive] - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The U.S. Embassy in Norway has confirmed that the USS Saipan (LHA-2) and the USS McInerney (FFG-8) will visit Oslo during the 100-year anniversary celebration for the peaceful dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.
		The U.S. Embassy in Norway has confirmed that the USS Saipan (CVL-48)CVL 48 is a different USS Saipan.
		The Saipan (and her sister Wright), while based on the hull and propulsion plant of the Baltimore class heavy cruisers, were built from the start as CVL.
	forum.keypublishing.co.uk /archive/index.php?t-43530.html (357 words)

	USS Saipan CVL 48 - US Navy - Korean War Project
		Comments: Served aboard USS Saipan 1950 - 1957.
		Comments: Looking for my son, Victor A. Collazo, last heard in 2001 was stationed in USS Saipan.
		Comments: I'm looking for Nickolas Rankin last I heard he was still aboard the USS Saipan.
	www.koreanwar.org /html/units/navy/uss_saipan.htm (520 words)

	Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In late 1950 the USS Norris was in the Med with a peace time crew, about 270 men.
		After several weeks in and out of Newport, the NORRIS was assigned to the USS SAIPAN (CVL 48) a part of the LANTFLEX 52 Operation.
		SOPA was COMBATCRULANT aboard the USS ALBANY CAV 12.
	www.homestead.com /ussnorris/Diary.html (6086 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Photo Index CVL-49 USS WRIGHT
		The converted Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-125/CC-1) was her fleetmate in this program.
		The USS Saipan (CVL-48) had originally been slated for this duty and was in the initial stages of her conversion when she was redesignated as a Major Communications Relay Ship (AMGR-2).
		The motto "Vox Imperii" is translated "voice of the leaders." The original patch was received from USS Wright in 1970.
	www.navsource.org /archives/02/49.htm (701 words)

	edisto era
		I was on the USS Saipan CVL 48 four months and was discharged in December 1952.
		I was attached to the USS Edisto for the North cruise in the summer of 1961.
		I was the junior pilot of the HU-2 detachment aboard the USS EDISTO during Deepfreeze IV, 1958-1959.
	www.ussedistoagb2.com /MenofedistfromanotherERA.html (9557 words)

	USN Ships--USS Arlington (AGMR-2)
		USS Arlington, a 14,500-ton major communications relay ship, was originally commissioned in July 1946 as the small aircraft carrier Saipan (CVL-48).
		USS Arlington arrived in California in August 1969.
		This page features all of our views of USS Arlington (AGMR-2), and provides a link to views of her when she was USS Saipan (CVL-48).
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/agmr2.htm (469 words)

	The Cold War Years - 55 to 64
		From May 5 through 15, Soley was engaged in a Joint Civilian Orientation Cruise with USS Intrepid (CVA-11) and USS Cutlass (SS-478) involving demonstrations of hedgehog, depth charge and anti-aircraft exercises.
		After a month in homeport Soley was underway for Pensacola, Florida for operations with USS Saipan (CVL-48) and a trip up the Mississippi for a brief visit to New Orleans.
		Due to the distances involved in the impending journey home, the destroyer tender USS Prairie (AD-15) was deployed from the Pacific Fleet to provide an availability period in the Persian Gulf for Barton and Soley prior to their departure.
	www.usssoley.org /55_64.htm (2277 words)

	R Biographies
		From VPB-111 I went to Yorktown, VA and was assigned duty aboard the USS Tarawa.
		I left the Navy in July of 1946 with the rating of ACMM-PA. As of this writing, (6/4/03) and to my knowledge, Harvey Cain and I are the last surviving members of CAC 8, VPB-111.
		Went overseas on Carrier USS Leyte and was assigned to HC-8 as 2nd Radio on arrival.
	www.vp-21.org /biographies/id139.htm (1878 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings: Lest We Forget, Alvin Kernan, VA-42, October 2005
		The squadron, which carried on the Green Pawn traditions of an earlier VF-42, moved to NAS Jacksonville, Florida, later that month, and in March 1951 deployed to the Mediterranean on board USS Saipan (CVL-48).
		In 1956, the squadron operated from the Navy's first supercarrier, USS Forrestal (CVA-59), for the ship's shakedown cruise, and later that year deployed to the Western Pacific on board USS Bennington (CVA-20).
		On 24 October 1958, VA-42 was assigned to Replacement Carrier Air Group Four with the East Coast role of training pilots and maintenance crews to operate the Skyraider, and in 1959 also took on the instrument training role using T-28B trainers.
	www.usni.org /proceedings/Articles05/Pro10LWF.htm (703 words)

	USS Saipan (CVL 48) Crew List
		The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS Saipan.
		Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website.
		Add yourself to the Crew List of USS Saipan.
	www.navysite.de /crew.php?action=ship&ship=CVL_48&squad=false (109 words)

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