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    USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) - Wikipedia

    • USS Bunker Hill (CV/CVA/CVS-17, AVT-9) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War. Commissioned in May 1943 and sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations, the ship participated in battles in the Southwest Pacific, C… 展开

    Construction and commissioning

    Bunker Hill was laid down on 15 September 1941, as hull number 1509 at the Bethlehem Steel Company's 展开

    Service history during World War II

    Bunker Hill had worked up with VF-17, a new fighter squadron flying F4U Corsairs. The Corsair, a new airplane, had some difficulties in its development, and the Navy gave consideration to replacing VF-17's Corsairs with … 展开

    舰种航空母舰
    舰级埃塞克斯级（9号舰）
    制造厂霍河造船厂
    动工1941年9月15日
    Kamikaze Survivor: USS Bunker Hill CV-17 in 30 Photos
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    Post-war

    On 27 September 1945, Bunker Hill sailed from Bremerton to report for duty with the Operation Magic Carpet fleet, returning veterans from the Pacific as a unit of TG 16.12. The vessel made return trips to the west coast from … 展开

    Awards

    Bunker Hill received the Presidential Unit Citation for the 18 months between 11 November 1943 and 11 May 1945, from the first combat in the Solomon Islands to the day the ship was knocked out of the war by kamikazes. In ad… 展开

    Gallery

    • Bunker Hill underway at sea in 1943
    • The second kamikaze strike amidships at the island, 30 seconds after the first strike aft, on 11 May 1945
    • Smoke fills the sky as the fire rages on Bunker Hill on 11 May 1945 … 展开

    External links and further reading

    • USS Bunker Hill, Nav source.
    • USS Bunker Hill pictures from the U.S. Naval History Center
    • Barry, Dan, "Keeping Alive Memories That Bedevil Him", The New York Times, August 13, 2009. Story about the combat experien… 展开

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