CVE-120 USS Mindoro  
CVE-120 USS Mindoro

Class

Commencement Bay Class

Builder

Todd Pacific Shipyards Inc.

Tacoma Washington

Laid down

29. January 1945 

Launched

27. June 1945

Commissioned

4. December 1945

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign

NKCG

Camouflage

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NS Seatle WA
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January 1946 - 15. February 1946
Trip to Norfolk
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last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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May 1946 - 1946
Carribbean (West Indies)
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last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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27. Febraury 1952 - August 1952
North Atlantic 
VS-22  AF-2W, AF-2S SL 00
HU-2 Det HO3S-1 UR 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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26. August 1952 - 11. October 1952
North Atlantic / North Sea
VS-22  AF-2W, AF-2S SL 00
VC-4 Det. 12  F6F-5N NA 00
HU-2 Det HO3S-1 UR 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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3. November 1952 - 17. November 1952
Caribbean 
VS-22  AF-2W, AF-2S SL 00
VC-4 Det. 12  F6F-5N NA 00
HU-2 Det HO3S-1 UR 00
last update 26. October 2008
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27. January 1954 - 9. February 1954
North Atlantic 
VS-30  AF-2W, AF-2S SW 00
HS-3 Det. 12 HO3S-3S HW 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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16. February 1954 - 16 March 1954
North Atlantic 
VS-30  AF-2W, AF-2S SW 00
HS-3 Det. 12 HO3S-3S HW 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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6. April 1954 - 15. April 1954
North Atlantic 
VS-30  AF-2W, AF-2S SW 00
HS-3 Det. 12 HO3S-3S HW 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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4. May 1954 - 9. July 1954
North Atlantic 
VS-30  AF-2W, AF-2S SW 00
HS-1 Det. 51 HO3S-3S HU 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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July 1954 - August 1954
North Atlantic 
VS-27  AF-2W, AF-2S SM 00
HS-? Det.  HO3S-3S ?? 00
last update 26. October 2008
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NS Norfolk VA
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Decommissioned

4. August 1955

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History (short)

After shakedown along the west coast, Mindoro sailed for the east coast late in January 1946 and arrived Norfolk, Va., 15 February. Assigned to Carrier Division 14, she began carrier air training operations along the east coast, and in May she joined ships of the 8th Fleet for exercises in waters of the West Indies. During the remainder of the year she ranged the Atlantic from New England to Cuba, training naval aviators and taking part in ASW hunter-killer exercises.
Mindoro continued to carry out a busy schedule of training and readiness operations. During the next nine years she operated out of Norfolk. Her numerous type training and fleet exercises sent her the length of the eastern coast of North America from Davis Strait to the Caribbean, and across the Atlantic to the British Isles and the Mediterranean. In 1950 and again in 1954 she deployed to the Mediterranean where she joined the 6th Fleet.
After completing exercises off the Virginia Capes, Mindoro steamed to Boston 17 January 1955. She decommissioned at Boston 4 August 1955 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. While berthed at Boston, she was reclassified AKV-20 on 7 May 1959. Later that year she was authorized for disposal, and her name was struck from the Navy list 1 December. Subsequently, she was disposed of in June 1960 and scrapped at Hong Kong later that year.


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