USS Essex CV-9 / CVA-9 / CVS-9
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May 20, 1945: USS Essex CV-9 underway off Okinawa, Japan.



July 1945: TBM Avengers and SB-2C Helldivers from the USS Essex CV-9 seen bombing Hakadate, Japan.



August 9, 1945: A Supermarine Seafire of 880 Squadron FAA assigned to HMS Implacable, pilot Sub-Lieutenant Mike Banyard, RNVR, seen with a collapsed landing gear on the flight deck of USS Essex CV-9. The two aircraft (this one and the one below) landed on Essex due to low fuel. However, the arrester wire on the U.S. carrier was too taught for the light aircraft and both planes were damaged on landing. Neither pilot was injured.
(Photo from the collection of Sub-Lieutenant Mike Banyard, RNVR)
Courtesy of Alex Banyard


August 9, 1945: A Supermarine Seafire of 880 Squadron FAA assigned to HMS Implacable, pilot Sub-Lieutenant Ken M. Newton, RNVR, seen wrecked on the flight deck of USS Essex CV-9.
(Photo from the collection of Sub-Lieutenant Mike Banyard, RNVR)
Courtesy of Alex Banyard


August 25, 1951: A F2H-2 Banshee piloted by Lt. Dauphin seen being brought up to the flight deck of the
USS Essex CV-9 during the Korean War.



September 29, 1951: Trucks from the 306th Mobile Blood Bank seen being loaded aboard the USS Essex CV-9
at Yokosuka, Japan. The men of the Essex set a record for blood donation by contributing 1,061 pints of blood.



August 1952: Task Force 77 including the USS Essex CV-9, USS Bon Homme Richard CV-31 and the
USS Princeton CV-37 seen during the Korean War, one of Bon Homme Richards F9F Panthers is seen above
the formation.





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