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Essex-class (long-hull) aircraft carrier.
Laid down: 1 February 1943
Launched: 7 February 1944
Commissioned: 8 May 1944
Fate: sold for scrap in 1974
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- USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) shortly after delivery to the US Navy on 30 May 1944
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- Aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga underway recovering aircraft on 30 June 1944
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- Hole in deck of USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) after Kamikaze attack off Formosa
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- Kamikaze crashes on deck of USS Ticonderoga off Formosa 21 January 1945
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- Japanese Kamikaze crashes near aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) off Philippines 1945
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- USS Ticonderoga underway at Hampton Roads 26 June 1944
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- USS Ticonderoga CV-14 aerial view
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- Aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga CV-14 in camouflage
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- USS Ticonderoga CV-14 hit by 2 sucide planes off Formosa
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- USS Ticonderoga CV-14 after being hit by two Kamikaze Planes Off Formosa Taiwan January 1945
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- Wreckage on USS Ticonderoga CV-14 after Kamikaze Attack off Formosa 1945
Essex-class (long-hull) aircraft carrier.
Laid down: 1 February 1943
Launched: 7 February 1944
Commissioned: 8 May 1944
Fate: sold for scrap in 1974
Bibliography:
- USS Ticonderoga – CV-CVA-CVS-14, Turner Publishing
- US NAVY FACT FILE Aircraft Carriers CV-14 USS Ticonderoga
- Steve Wiper: Warship Pictorial 22 – USS Ticonderoga CV/CVA/CVS-14
- Mark Stille, Jim Laurier: US Navy Ships vs Kamikazes 1944-45, Osprey Duel
- The US Navy in World War II – Mark Henry, Osprey 2002
- Flight Deck: US Navy Carrier Operation 1940-1945 – Al Adcock, Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 2002
- Air Power at Sea – A Century of U.S. Naval Aviation 1911-2011
- Flat Tops and Fledglings: A History of American Aircraft Carriers – Castle Books 1971
- Essex Class Carriers in action – Michael C. Smith, Squadron/Signal Publications Warships Number 10
- Essex Class Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War – Steve Backer, Shipcraft 12
- US Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1942-45: WWII-built ships – Osprey New Vanguard 130