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USS Wasp (ii) (CV 18)

Aircraft Carrier of the Essex class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeAircraft Carrier
ClassEssex 
PennantCV 18 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Mar, 1942 
Launched17 Aug, 1943 
Commissioned24 Nov, 1943 
End service1 Jul, 1972 
Loss position
 
HistoryOriskany was renamed Wasp (ii) on 26 September 1942.
Decommissioned 17 February 1947.
Recommissioned 28 September 1951.
Decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1972.
Sold 21 May 1973 and broken up for scrap. 
Former nameOriskany

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