USS Attu (CVE-102)

Ts 7800 ( Standard) 10,400 ts (insert)

156.2 m

32.9 m

6.9 m

860

4 piston steam engines, 9000 hp two propellers

19 kn

10,200 nautical miles at 15 knots

28

The USS Attu (CVE -102 ) was an escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy and was part of the Casablanca class. The support was from June 1944 to June 1946 in service with the U.S. Navy.

History

Ordered as Elbour Bay, he was future carrier renamed on November 6, 1943 in honor of the Battle of Attu in USS Attu. The keel was laid on 16 March 1944 Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington. After almost two months of construction took place on the 27th of May launch, commissioned into the U.S. Navy took place under the command of Captain RF MacComsey on 30 June 1944.

After the first test drives off the west coast of the Attu left San Diego on August 7, to bring aircraft and personnel to Pearl Harbor. After a two day stay in Hawaii, she went to Guadalcanal and Espiritu Santo on where to put spare aircraft and personnel. On August 31, she sat back course to the west coast, where she arrived in San Diego on 13 September. She went to rectification work in Terminal Iceland in the Dock, the work was completed on September 28, then put the Attu course for Alameda, where fuel, food and airplanes are taken on board.

On 1 October, the escort carrier left the U.S. west coast and met on 18 October in Finschhafen, New Guinea, a. After a stop at Manus and Pearl Harbor, the Attu returned to Alameda, where she was overhauled again. On November 23, she sat Course in Hawaii, where she transported troops and supplies to Guam. On 4 January 1945, the carrier was back in San Diego.

On 20 January, the Attu ran out again and met a week later in Hawaii, where they began flying and shooting exercises Oahu. On February 1st quotation was taken on Eniwetok where the Attu arrived on 10 February. From Eniwetok she relocated to Ulithi where she joined on February 16, Task Force 50. The Attu was given the task supply aircraft to the fleet carriers in the Fast Carrier Task Forces to deliver.

In early July, she returned to a severe typhoon to San Diego back to repairs. On July 24, she ran back out into the Pacific Ocean, at the time of Japan's surrender, she was south of the main Japanese islands. On 11 November, the carrier was back on the U.S. West Coast, two weeks later, the first trips started as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Until 1946, she made ​​several trips to bring back U.S. troops from the Pacific.

In May 1946, the decommissioning of Attu was decided that she went over the Panama Canal and Jacksonville to Norfolk, where she was placed out of service on June 8, 1946. On July 3 of that year, the removal from the shipping registers of the U.S. Navy took place.

The Attu received two battle stars for their efforts during the Second World War.