Essex-class aircraft carrier
Laid down: 1 December 1941
Launched: 26 April 1943
Commissioned: 16 August 1943
Fate: museum ship
Bibliography:
- US Carrier War: Design, Development and Operations – Kev Darling 2011
- US Carrier Aircraft of World War 2 – Aeroplane Aviation Archive
- Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives – Michael Green, 2015
- The US Navy in World War II – Mark Henry, Osprey 2002
- Flight Deck: US Navy Carrier Operation 1940-1945 – Al Adcock, Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 2002
- Air Power at Sea – A Century of U.S. Naval Aviation 1911-2011
- Flat Tops and Fledglings: A History of American Aircraft Carriers – Castle Books 1971
- Essex Class Carriers in action – Michael C. Smith, Squadron/Signal Publications Warships Number 10
- Essex Class Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War – Steve Backer, Shipcraft 12
- US Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1942-45: WWII-built ships – Osprey New Vanguard 130