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Essex-class aircraft carrier (long-hull)
Laid down: 26 January 1943
Commissioned: 15 April 1944
Fate: scrapeed in 1977
Bibliography:
Carrier USS Hancock CV-19 in camouflage
Crewmen on USS Hancock CV-19 move rockets to planes for strike on Formasa 1944
USS Hancock hit by Japanese bomb and Kamikaze off Okinawa 7 April 1945
Bomb Explodes Aboard USS Hancock CV-19 1945
Burning Carrier USS Hancock CV-19 After Kamikaze Attack Off Kyushu 1945
Carrier USS Hancock CV-19 Survives Hit by Japanese Bomber November 1944
Launch of US Aircraft Carrier USS Hancock CV-19, 24 January 1944. Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.
Aircraft Carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) Survives Hit by Japanese Bomber
Aircraft carrier USS Hancock CV-19 Burning after being hit by Kamikaze – Okinawa 7 April 1945
Essex-class aircraft carrier (long-hull)
Laid down: 26 January 1943
Commissioned: 15 April 1944
Fate: scrapeed in 1977
Bibliography:
- US Carrier War: Design, Development and Operations – Kev Darling 2011
- US Carrier Aircraft of World War 2 – Aeroplane Aviation Archive
- Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives – Michael Green, 2015
- US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922-45: Prewar classes – Mark Stille, Tony Bryan, Osprey New Vanguard 114
- 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