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Bon Homme Richard off Korea, 1951 |
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USS Bon Homme Richard receiving fuel from tanker CTF 77 |
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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway. Bon Homme Richard, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 19 (CVW-19), was deployed to Vietnam from 21 April 1965 to 13 January 1966. |
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USS Bon Homme Richard - Korea 1951 |
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) |
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) |
Bon Homme Richard was commissioned in November 1944, and served in the final campaigns of the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning one battle star. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was recommissioned in 1951 for the Korean War. In her second career she operated exclusively in the Pacific, playing a prominent role in the Korean War, for which she earned five battle stars, and the Vietnam War. She was modernized and recommissioned in 1955. She was decommissioned in 1971, and scrapped in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bon_Homme_Richard_(CV-31)
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