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What You Need to Know: The USS Wasp (CV-18), an Essex-class aircraft carrier ... and the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation among many other awards. Originally to be named USS Oriskany, she ...
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) in drydock at Bayonne, New Jersey, showing the damage to the carrier’s bow from her 26 April 1952 collision with USS Hobson (DMS-26). Wasp ...