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Old January 23rd, 2008, 01:06 AM
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Default Re: Name This Naval Vessel 2

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Originally Posted by Stefan View Post
The Fanshaw Bay?

Pretty crammed with aircraft, nice pic.
Bingo. CVE 70. There are more of her at bosamar.com. I have many more pics that were my dad's.

I know of at least 2 trips she made to Australia with a load of planes, one of which was entirely P-38s. I have pics of that load. Of course she was present at the Battle off Samar, when Taffy 3 went toe-to-toe with Kurita. Kurita blinked.

BTW, the Fanny Bee was the only flat-top, big or small, that garnered TWO Presidential Unit Citations, in addtion to another one from the president of the Phillipines. I'll post some more info on her when I get time.

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