USS Wasp CV-18: A Fighting Carrier Her combat record saw her enter service in the spring of 1944, and she took part in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, followed by the Battle of the ...

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 ...

1965 - River Patrol Force established in Vietnam. 1965 - Helicopters from HS-11 on USS Wasp (CVS-18) pick up crew and capsule of Gemini 7, after picking up the crew and capsule of Gemini 6 two ...

That’s the USS Wasp (CV-7). Although the boat was commissioned later in 1940, its design was heavily influenced by the Washington Naval Treaty. The treaty limited the size of fleets and ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean at the onset of America's engagement in World War II. While supporting ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The USS Wasp returned to Naval Station Norfolk July 28 after almost 18 months in dry-dock selected restricted availability. Click here to subscribe to WAVY’s Daily ...

The USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group will return Friday from a seven-month deployment. The group includes the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, the amphibious transport dock ship USS New York and ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The USS Wasp is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship that was first commissioned in 1989. Built at Ingalls Shipbuilding’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi and the 1st ...

Remembering Fleet Week 2007 and a tour of the USS Wasp, a multipurpose amphibious assault ship. May 21-27 is Fleet Week 2025 in New York City, the annual celebration of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps ...