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CV-17 Bunker Hill
United States Navy aircraft carrier
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Essex-short | 1941/09/15 Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Div., Quincy, | 1942/12/07 | 1943/10/24 | 1973
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| Namesake: Bunker Hill is a height in Charlestown, Mass. The battle, which bears this name, was fought 17 June 1775 on adjacent Breed's Hill | |||||
| TTD differences from class: | |||||
| Camouflage: 43: Ms 21, 44: Ms 32/6a, 45: Ms 21 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 43/07?? | joinPac | ||||
| 43/08 | 50.3 | raid -Rabaul | |||
| 43/10/21 | 43/11/25 | Galvan | 50.3 | CVG-17: 24xF6F-3, 33xSB2C, 18xTBF-1 | |
| 43/11/25 | 43/12/09 | Galvan | 50.4 | 66 | |
| 43/12 | raid -Kavieng | 66 | |||
| 43/12/06 | 43/12/08 | Galvan | 50.8 | shell | |
| 43/12/08 | 43/12/12 | sail Gilberts > Efate | 66 | ||
| 43/12/12 | 43/12/20 | Esp. Santo | 88 | ||
| 43/12/25 | 44/01/23 | 37.2 | raid Kavieng | 66 x | |
| 44/01/27 | 44/02/13 | Flint | 58.3 | CVG-17: VF-18,VB-17,VT-17 | |
| 44/02/12 | 44/02/19 | Hailst | 58.3 | CVG-17: VF-18,VB-17,VT-17 | 104 |
| 44/02/20 | 44/02/22 | 58 | raid -Marianas | ||
| 44/03/15 | 44/04/06 | Desec1 | 58.2 | raid -Palau (CVG-8) | 66 |
| 44/04/13 | 44/05/04 | Reckle | 58.2 | ||
| 44/06/12 | 44/08/10 | Forage | 58.2 | CVG-8 | 81 |
| 44/06/19 | Forage | 58.2 | xPhilip - near-missed by dive bomber (14-46N, 143-02E) | ||
| 44/07/25 | Forage | 58.2 | VF-8 sinking guardboat Ryojin Maru off W coast of Babelthuap (07-30N, 134-30E) | 85 | |
| 44/07/26 | Forage | 58.2 | damaging landing ship T-150 at Palaus | 85 | |
| 44/07/26 | Forage | 58.2 | finishing CM Sokuten (damaged by Lexington II) at Malakal Harbor, Koror Is., Palau (07-20N, 134-27E) | 85 | |
| 44/07/27 | Forage | 58.2 | sinking landing ship T-150 at Palaus | 85 | |
| 44/08/04 | Forage | 58.2 | sinking/share(Lexington II) landing ship T-133 off Iwojima coast (24-47N, 141-20E) | 85 | |
| 44/08/05 | Forage | 58.2 | damaging APA T-4 (27-07N, 142-12E), T-7 W of Cicijima (27-05N, 142-09E) | 85 | |
| 44/08/09 | 44/08/18 | Eniwetok | 88 | ||
| 44/08/26 | 44/10/23 | King2 | 38.2 | CVG-8 | 81 104 |
| 44/10/23 | detached for major overhaul | 104 | |||
| 44/11/06 | sail to Ulithi | 66 | |||
| 44/11/20 | Ulithi - sail to P.H. > Bremerton | ||||
| 44/12 | 45/01/24 | Bremerton - overhaul | 66 | ||
| 45/01/24 | Bremerton - sail to San Francisco | 66 | |||
| 45/01/29 | 45/02/07 | 12.2 | sail from P.H. to Ulithi | 81 | |
| 45/02/15 | 45/03/04 | Detach | 58.3 | 66 84 | |
| 45/03/14 | 45/05/11 | Iceber | 58.3/FF | ||
| 45/03/22 | 58.3/FF | recon -Okinawa | |||
| 45/05/11 | 58.3/FF | disable(kami) 90 nm ESE of Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa (25-44N, 129-28E) - 396 KIA, 264 WIA | 86 85 | ||
| 45/05/12 | 45/05/14 | sail from Okinawa to Ulithi escorted by McCoy Reynolds | 66 | ||
| 45/06 | 45/09 | Bremerton - repairs | 66 | ||