- USS
Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) was the
seventeenth of
fifty Casablanca-class
escort carrier built for the
United States Navy
during World War II. She was launched...
- ("Taffy 3")
consisted of
Fanshaw Bay, St. Lo,
White Plains,
Kalinin Bay,
Kitkun Bay and
Gambier Bay.
Screening for Taffy 3 were the
destroyers Hoel, Heermann...
- with St. Lo.
Three other Taffy 3
escort carriers, USS Kalinin Bay, USS
Kitkun Bay and
White Plains, were also
damaged in the same
kamikaze attack. Vice-Admiral...
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damaging it badly. The
other hit the aft port stack,
destroying it. USS
Kitkun Bay (CVE-71): The port
catwalk was
clipped and the
aircraft exploded off...
-
escort carriers until 18 September, when
Johnston was re****igned to
escort Kitkun Bay,
White Plains, and
Gambier Bay.
Johnston and her
charges received orders...
-
attacked several escort carriers. One Zero
attempted to hit the
bridge of USS
Kitkun Bay but
instead exploded on the port
catwalk and
cartwheeled into the sea...
-
explosion was
observed aboard Chōkai
before a TBM
Avenger from the USS
Kitkun Bay
dropped a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb on her
forward machinery room. Fires...
- staged.
Screened by four
destroyer escorts,
Gambier Bay and her
sister ship
Kitkun Bay
escorted transports and
amphibious landing ships safely to
Leyte Gulf...
- 14
August 1946 Struck, 1
March 1959, sold for s****ping, 2
February 1960
Kitkun Bay CVE-71 11 18 June 1943 8
November 1943 15
December 1943 19
April 1946...
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boarded three carriers USS
Gambier Bay CVE-73, USS
Hoggat Bay CVE-75, and USS
Kitkun Bay CVE-71 for a
voyage to
Hawaii and
arrived 8 May,
where it ****umed the...
