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retired from the area for logistics. She evaded another typhoon on 11â12 August, then hit Tokyo again on 13 August. After replenishing on 14 August, she sent planes to strike the airfields around Tokyo on the morning of 15 August 1945. Soon thereafter, Japan's capitulation was announced; and the fleet was ordered to cease hostilities.
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spent the next four days in the retirement area waiting for a typhoon to pass. On 9 August, after heavy fog had caused the cancellation of the previous day's missions, the carrier sent her planes aloft to bomb Honshū and
Hokkaido once again. The next day, they raided Tokyo and central Honshū, then
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was struck below the waterline, breaching the hull. On the destroyer, one man was killed and another injured. The ship itself suffered a bent hull. There were no casualties on the carrier and the hole was quickly patched at sea by the crew of the tender ship
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were overhauled. At a cost of approximately $ 7 million, she was virtually a new ship when she commissioned for the third time on 10 January 1955, Captain Roscoe L. Newman commanding; she was the second (after
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steamed around in the strike area from 15 to 23 August, patrolling the HonshÅ« area on the latter date. From 23 August â 16 September, her planes sortied on missions of mercy, air-dropping supplies to Allied
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Mediterranean on 7 February. After about six months of cruising with the 6th Fleet, she departed the Mediterranean in mid-August and arrived in Mayport on 28 August.
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1647:"Neptune Paper No. 3: Naval Accidents 1945-1988"
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1513:Hamilton, Curtiss (6 August 1943).
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1291:Vietnam War
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274:4 Ã geared
259:8 Ã boilers
134:10 May 1951
2091:1944 ships
2085:Categories
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1879:Bennington
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1939:Kearsarge
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1960:Antietam
1953:Reprisal
1946:Oriskany
1911:Randolph
1851:Franklin
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1830:Yorktown
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1536:Horizon.
1488:See also
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953:Antietam
859:Post-war
828:Missouri
821:entered
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1988:Tarawa
1844:Hornet
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1278:Awards
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1126:CVS-38
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562:Panama
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230:Length
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188:, 1988
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