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CVE-55 USS Casablanca .
CVE-55 USS Casablanca

Class

Casablanca Class

Builder

Kaiser Shipbuilding Company

Vancouver, Washington

Laid down

3 November 1942

Launched

5 April 1943

Commissioned

8. July 1943

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign

NXMO

Camouflage

Sep. 1943 - Jan. 1945   Measures 14

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NS Bremmerton
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July 1943 - August 1944
Training ship in the Straits of Juan de Fuca
last update 1. November 2010
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NS Bremmerton
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24. August - 8. October 1944
West Pacific (Transport to Manus Island)
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last update 1. November 2010
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NS San Diego CA
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22. January 1945 - 13. March 1945
Modernization and overhaul at NS San Diego
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NS San Diego CA
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13. March 1945 - 24 September1945
West Pacific (Transport duty)
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last update 1. November 2010
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NS Pearl Harbor HI
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Oktober 1945 - November 1945
West Pacific (Transport to Manus Island)
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last update 1. November 2010
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NS San Francisco CA
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8. December 1945 - 16. January 1946
West Pacific (Magic Carpet Yokohama - San Francisco)
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last update 1. November 2010
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NS San Francisco CA
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23. January 1946 - 10. Februar 1946
Trip to Norfolk
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last update 1. November 2010
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NS Norfolk VA
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Decommissioned

10. June 1946

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History (short)

Casablanca operated in the Strait of Juan de Fuca as a training ship for escort carrier crews from the time of her commissioning until August 1944. On 24 August she cleared San Francisco carrying men, airplanes, and aviation gasoline to Manus Island, a major base for western Pacific operations. Returning to Seattle on 8 October, she resumed her training operations in Puget Sound until 22 January 1945, when she began a repair period at San Diego.
Putting to sea on 13 March, Casablanca called at Pearl Harbor, then delivered passengers and aircraft brought from the West Coast to the island of Guam. Acting as a transport ship for passengers, aircraft, and aviation gasoline, she operated between Samar, Manus, and Palau until 12 May, when she put back for a West Coast overhaul. She returned with passengers to Pearl Harbor on 24 June, and through the summer transported sailors and aviators from the West Coast to Pearl Harbor and Guam. After brief employment in carrier qualification training off Saipan in August, she carried homeward-bound U.S. servicemen to San Francisco, arriving on 24 September. Continuing to aid in the homecoming of soldiers, sailors, and Marines from the Pacific Theater, the Casablanca carried passengers on a voyage from the West Coast to Pearl Harbor in September and October, and the in November she made a voyage from Pearl Harbor, to Espiritu Santo and Nouméa to recover more passengers. Her last voyage on this duty in Operation Magic Carpet, from 8 December 1945 to 16 January 1946, was from San Francisco to Yokohama. The Casablanca departed San Francisco on 23 January for Norfolk, Virginia, arriving on 10 February. There she was decommissioned on 10 June 1946, and sold on 23 April 1947.


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