USS Ticonderoga (CV/CVA/CVS-14) is one of 24 class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States. Navy. The ship is the fourth named US Navy ship, and named after the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in the American Revolutionary War. Ticonderoga was commissioned in May 1944, and served in several campaigns at the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning five star battles. Immediately after the end of the war, he was modernized and communicated in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and subsequently eventually became a submarine antisubmarine (CVS) carrier. He was accepted back too late to participate in the Korean War, but was very active in the Vietnam War, earning three Navy Unit Awards, one Awards of Unity Unit, and 12 fighting stars.
Ticonderoga is somewhat different from the early Essex ships within 16 feet (4.9m) longer to accommodate the anti-aircraft weapons mounted in the arc. Most of the Essex class operators are finished with this "long hull" design and seem to be called the Ticonderoga class. At the end of his career, after a number of modifications, he was said to be in the Hancock class according to the Navy ship registration.
Ticonderoga was deactivated in 1973 and sold for scrap in 1975.
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Konstruksi dan commissioning
The ship was designated as Hancock on February 1, 1943 in Newport News, Virginia, by Newport News Shipbuilding & amp; Dry Dock Co., renamed Ticonderoga on May 1, 1943, and launched on February 7, 1944, sponsored by Miss Stephanie Sarah Pell. He was assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard on May 8, 1944, Captain Dixie Kiefer as commander.
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Service history
Ticonderoga stayed in Norfolk for nearly two months with equipment and started Air Group 80. On June 26, the aircraft carrier formed a course for the British West Indies. He performed air and exercise operations en route and reached Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 30 June. For the next 15 days, Ticonderoga is training intensively to weld the air group and its crew into efficient wartime teams. He left the West Indies on July 16 and returned to Norfolk where he arrived on July 22 for repairs and post-search shifts. On August 30, the aircraft carrier headed for Panama. He transited the Panama Canal on September 4 and drove the coast to the Naval Base of San Diego the next day. On September 13, the aircraft carrier was moored in San Diego where it contains provisions, fuel, aviation gas, and 77 additional aircraft, as well as the Marine Corps' aircraft and defense units that accompany them. On September 19, he steamed to Hawaii where he arrived five days later.
Ticonderoga stayed at Pearl Harbor for nearly a month. He and Carina experimented in the transfer of flight bomb operations from cargo ships to aircraft carriers. After the test, he performed air operations - daytime and nighttime landing drill and anti-aircraft defense - until October 18, when he exited from Pearl Harbor and headed for the western Pacific. After a brief pause in Eniwetok, Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi in the West Caroline Islands on 29 October. There he started Rear Adm. Arthur W. Radford, Commander, Carrier of the 6th Division, and joined the Task Force 38 (TF 38) as the Rear Admiral unit of Frederick C. Sherman Task Group 38.3 (TG 38.3).
World War II
Philippines Campaign
The carrier was sorted from Ulithi with TF 38 on November 2, 1944. He joined other airlines as they resumed extended air cover for ground forces supporting the Battle of Leyte. He launched his first air strike on the morning of November 5th. His group's airplane spent the next two days condemning enemy shipments near Luzon and an air installation on the island. His plane bombed and fired on airfields in Zablan, Mandaluyong, and Pasig. They also joined another aircraft carrier that drowned the heavy cruiser Nachi . In addition, the Ticonderoga pilot claimed six Japanese planes were shot down and one was destroyed on the ground, and 23 others were damaged.
Around 16:00 on November 5, the enemy attacked with a group of kamikaze planes. Two of the suicide planes pierced American air combat patrol and anti-aircraft fire to hit the aircraft carrier Lexington . Ticonderoga emerged from the attack unscathed and claimed the tally of two splats. On November 6, the warship launched two combat and two bombing attacks on Luzon airfield and enemy shipments in the vicinity. The attackers returned that day claiming the destruction of 35 Japanese aircraft and attacks on six enemy ships in Manila Bay. After recovering the plane, the carrier retreated eastward to supply.
He refueled and received a replacement aircraft on November 7 and then returned to continue operating against enemy forces in the Philippines. Early in the morning on November 11, his plane was combined with another from TF 38 to attack the Japanese strengthening convoy, just as he prepared to enter the Ormoc Bay from the Camotes Sea. Together, the plane contributed all enemy transport and four of the seven destroyers were escorted. On November 12-13, Ticonderoga and his sister ship launched an attack on the Luzon airfield and pier and shipping around Manila. This attack destroyed the light cruisers Kiso, four destroyers and seven merchant ships. At the end of the raid, TF 38 retired eastward to refuel. Ticonderoga and the rest of TG 38.3, however, continue east to Ulithi where they arrived on Nov. 17 to fill, refuel, and rearm.
On November 22, the aircraft carrier left Ulithi once again and headed back to the Philippines. Three days later, he launched an airstrike on central Luzon and adjacent waters. His pilot drowned a heavy cruiser Kumano , which was previously damaged in the Battle of Samar. Later, they attacked an enemy convoy some 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Kumano in Dasol Bay. From this convoy, the Yasoshima cruiser, a merchant, and three landing vessels were drowned. Ticonderoga ' air group ended the day of their destruction with an air combat that cost 15 Japanese planes shot down and 11 destroyed on the ground.
While the air group against Japan, the crew of the Ticonderoga ' also took action. Just after noon, a torpedo launched by enemy aircraft stormed behind light aircraft carrier Langley , announces an approach to enemy air strikes. Ticonderoga ' shooters guard their battle stations against conventional attacks and suicide in task groups. The sister ship Essex has been on fire when one of kamikaze hit her. When the second suicide plane tried to attack the attacked aircraft carrier, the Ticonderoga shooter joined the shooting from another ship in shooting down. That afternoon, while the damage controller worked in Essex, Ticonderoga restored damaged aircrew Essex and Intrepid could not accept. The next day, TF 38 retired to the east.
TF 38 stood out from Ulithi again on December 11 and headed for the Philippines. Ticonderoga arrived at the launch point early in the afternoon of December 13 and sent the plane up to blanket the Japanese air base in Luzon while the Army aircraft attacked people in the central Philippines. For three days, Aviator Ticonderoga and their colleagues launched air strikes at enemy airfields. He resigned on December 16 with the rest of TF 38 to look for a buildup of fuel. While trying to find calmer water to refuel, TF 38 is steamed straight through a hurricane, but not detected. Despite the hurricane costs, Admiral forces William Halsey forced three destroyers and more than 800 lives, Ticonderoga and other aircraft carriers managed to drive it with minimum damage. After surviving the battle, Ticonderoga returned to Ulithi on December 24th.
Repairs caused by typhoons make TF 38 at the port almost to the end of the month. The carrier did not return to the sea until December 30, 1944 when they sailed north to hit Formosa and Luzon in preparation for a landing on the last island in Lingayen Bay. Bad weather limits Formosa attack on January 3-4, 1945 but also inhibits enemy operations. The warships are fueled at sea on January 5. Despite the bad weather on January 6, a strike at Luzon airfield was conducted. That day, Ticonderoga airmen ' and their colleagues from other air groups increased their score with 32 other enemy planes. January 7 brings more strikes in Luzon installations. After filling up gasoline on January 8th, Ticonderoga drove north at night to enter a position to blanket the Japanese airfield at Ryyyy during the Lingayen attack the next morning. However, bad weather, bugaboo TF 38 during the winter of 1944 and 1945, forcing TG 38.3 to leave a strike in Ry? Ky? airfield and joined the TG 38.2 in pounding Formosa. South China Sea Battle
During the night of 9-10 January, TF 38 was steamed through the Luzon Strait and then headed generally southwest, diagonally across the South China Sea. Ticonderoga provided coverage of air combat patrol on January 11 and helped bring down four enemy planes attempting to peek at formations. Otherwise, their mother ship and consort will run smoothly to a point about 150 to 200 miles (240 to 320 km) off the coast of Indochina. There, on January 12, they launched about 850 of their aircraft and made a series of anti-shipping sweeps where they drowned 44 ships, totaling more than 300,000 tonnes (300,000 tons).
After recovering the plane in the afternoon, the aircraft carrier moved northeast. Severe weather inhibits refueling operations at 13-14 and the air surveillance fails to detect valuable targets. On January 15, fighters raided Japanese airfields on Chinese beaches while their carriers headed for positions to attack Hong Kong. The next morning, they launched an anti-shipment raid raid and swept the air installation fighters. Weather prevents air operations on January 17 and again makes fuel difficult. It worsened the next day and stopped the recharging operation altogether, so they ended up not ending until January 19th. The troops then took a common path northward to re-transports Luzon Strait via the Balintang Channel.
Attack on the islands of South Japan
Three TF 38 task groups completed their transit on the night of January 20-21. The next morning, helped by favorable flight conditions, their planes reach the airstrip in Formosa, in Pescadores, and in Sakishima Gunto. While allowing American aviation operations to continue throughout the day, it also allows Japanese operations kamikaze .
Just after noon, a Japanese single-engined aircraft hit a hit in Langley with a bombing attack. Seconds later, a kamikaze sped from the clouds and fell toward the Ticonderoga . The plane crashed through the deck of the ship parallel to the No. 2 5 at (130 mm), and the bomb went off just above the hangar deck. Several of the planes that were hit nearby exploded into flames and people were killed. When the crew was ordered to rescue the endangered carrier, Captain Kiefer cunningly deployed his ship. First, he changed the direction so that the wind did not obscure the fire. Later, he ordered magazines and other compartments to be flooded to prevent further explosions and to improve the list of 10 Â ° boards. Finally, he instructed the damage controller to continue the flooded compartment on the port side of the Ticonderoga ' which induced the port 10 Â ° list that dumped the fire into the sea. Firefighters and aircraft handlers complete the dangerous task of flushing the fire and discharging the burned plane.
Others kamikaze then attack operators. His anti-aircraft gunners shot down three who all fell into the sea, but a fourth plane hit the right side of the aircraft carrier near the island. His bomb caused more planes to burn, cut off his flight deck, and injured or killed 100 other sailors, with Captain Kiefer being injured. Ticonderoga 'crew continue their efforts and avoid further attacks. They brought fire completely under control shortly after 1400, and Ticonderoga retired.
Fix it and relaunch it
The affected carrier arrives at Ulithi on January 24 but stays there just long enough to transfer the wounded to the hospital ship of Samaria , to transfer the air group to Hancock , and to start passengers heading home. Ticonderoga cleared the lagoon on January 28 and headed for the US. The warship stopped briefly on Pearl Harbor on the way to the Puget Sound Navy Yard where he arrived on February 15th. Captain William Sinton took command in February 1945.
The fix was completed on April 20, and he cleared Puget Sound the next day for Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. After starting passengers and airplanes to Hawaii, the aircraft carrier headed to Pearl Harbor where he arrived on May 1st. The next day, Air Group 87 came and, for the next week, trained in preparation for the comeback's combat return. Ticonderoga stands in Pearl Harbor and forms a course for the western Pacific. En route to Ulithi, he launched his plane for what became a strike exercise in Taroa held by Japan at Marshalls. On May 22, the warship arrived at Ulithi and rejoined the Rapport Task Force as an element of the Admiral Tendon Radford TG 58.4.
Preparing for a Japanese campaign
Two days after his arrival, the Ticonderoga sorted from Ulithi with TF 58 and headed north to spend the last weeks of war in the waters of Japanese homes. Three days later, Admiral Halsey freed Admiral Raymond Spruance, the fifth Fleet was returned to the 3rd Fleet, and TF 58 became TF 38 again for that time period. On 2-3 June, Ticonderoga combatants attacked at the airfield in Ky? Sh? in an attempt to neutralize the remnants of Japan's air power - especially kamikaze - and to reduce pressure on American troops in Okinawa. Over the next two days, Ticonderoga rode its second typhoon in less than six months and appeared relatively unscathed. He provided a combat air patrol cover for June 6 refueling, and four of his fighters were intercepted and destroyed three Kamikaze tied in Okinawa . That night, he rode at high speed with TG 38.4 to carry out an air strike in southern Ky? Sh? on June 8th. Ticonderoga ' s plane then joined in the air bombing of Minami Daito islands and Kita Daito before the carrier headed to Leyte where he arrived on the 13th.
During the two-week rest period and the recharge period he enjoyed at Leyte, Ticonderoga changed the task organization from TG 38.4 to Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan TG 38.3. On July 1, under the banner of Admiral Clifton Sprague, he left Leyte with TF 38 and headed north to continue the attack in Japan. Two days later, damaged tooth teeth forced him into Apra Harbor, Guam, for repairs. He remained there until the 19th when he was steamed to rejoin TF 38. On the 24th, his plane joins the other fast aircraft carriers in the striking ships of the Inland Sea and airfields in Nagoya, Osaka and Miko.
During the raid, the TF 38 plane discovered the sad remains of the powerful Japanese fleet and battleship bagged by Ise , Hy? Ga , and Haruna and the escort carrier, Kaiy? , and two heavy cruisers. On July 28, the plane directed their efforts toward the Kure Naval Base, where they crashed into aircraft carriers, three cruisers, destroyers and submarines. He turned his attention to the central Honsh industrial estate? on July 30th, then north of Honsh? and Hokkaid? on August 9-10. The last attack thoroughly destroys the marshaling area for an air suicide attack planned at B-29 base in Marianas. On August 13-14, the plane returned to the Tokyo area and helped make the Japanese capital a severe victim.
On the morning of August 16th,
The shocks of peace, though not so sudden as wars nearly four years earlier, began to get used to. Ticonderoga and his sister ship remains on a full war footing. He continued patrolling Japanese territory and sending reconnaissance flights to search for camps containing Allied prisoners of war so that air-dropped supplies could be delivered to them immediately. On September 6 - four days after the official handover ceremony on the Missouri - Ticonderoga ship entered Tokyo Bay.
Post-war
His arrival in Tokyo ended one phase of his career and started another. From Tokyo, he embarked on a home-bound journey to Bremerton Navy Yard in Puget Sound and again at sea on October 20, 1945. After stopping at Pearl Harbor in November to transform an aircraft carrier to accommodate additional passengers for the operation of Magic Carpet, he steamed into Okinawa, Japan to take the soldiers and return home with the Typhoon on his back reaching Alameda Navy Yard in Oakland, CA in December 1945. He lowered his passengers and lowered his load before heading to the Philippines in Samar to pick up the others. veteran groups. Leaving the Philippines in early January 1946, he returned to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard outside Seattle, WA, which transported between two and four thousand soldiers who returned and dismantled armaments and ammunition before entering the Bremerton Navy Yard to get ready for inactivation.
Almost a year later on January 9, 1947, Ticonderoga was stationed outside the commission and docked with the Bremerton Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Redeployment in the Pacific
On January 31, 1952, Ticonderoga got out of the reserve and went to reduce commissions for transit from Bremerton to New York. He left Puget Sound on February 27 and reached New York on April 1st. Three days later, he was disabled at the New York Naval shipyard to begin an extensive SCB-27C conversion. Over the next 29 months, the operator received many modifications - steam catapults to launch jets, new nylon barricades, new deck elevators and the latest electronic and fire control equipment - required for him to become an integral unit of the fleet. On September 11, 1954, Ticonderoga was recruited back in New York, Captain William A. "Bill" Schoech as commander.
In January 1955, the aircraft carrier moved to its new home port - Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia - where he arrived on the 6th. During the following month, he undertook a career qualification with Air Group 6 in the Virginia Capes operation area. On February 3, he stood in the Hampton Roads to be ransacked near Cuba, after which he returned via Norfolk to New York for an additional change. During late summer, warships continue their career qualifications in the Virginia Capes region.
He visited Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend to participate in the International Air Show. To demonstrate the power of his new steam catapult, on three consecutive days he launched the North American AJ-1 Savages while standing at anchor in the Delaware River. Ticonderoga later participated in a test of four new aircraft - A4D-1 Skyhawk, F4D-1 Skyray, F7U Cutlass, and F3H-2N Demon. Ticonderoga then returned to normal operation along the East Coast until November 4 when he left Naval Station Mayport, Florida, and headed to Europe. He relieved Intrepid in Gibraltar 10 days later and sailed across the Mediterranean for the next eight months. On August 2, 1956, Ticonderoga returned to Norfolk and entered the shipyard to receive a flight deck and a closed storm arc as part of the SCB-125 program.
The modification was completed in early 1957, and in April he began building his new harbor home - Alameda, California. He reached his goal on May 30, underwent repairs, and spent the summer with operations off the coast of California. On September 16, he stood outside San Francisco Bay and formed a path to the Far East. On the way , he stops at Pearl Harbor before continuing west to Yokosuka Japan, where he arrives on October 15th. For six months, Ticonderoga explored waters from Japan in the north to the Philippines in the south. Upon arriving at Alameda on 25 April 1958, he completed his first deployment to the western Pacific since escort.
Vietnamese
Pre-conflict operations
From 1958-1963, Ticonderoga made four more peaceful deployments in the western Pacific. During each, he conducted a training operation with the other units of the 7th Fleet and made goodwill and liberty port calls throughout the Far East. In early 1964, he began preparations for his sixth voyage to the western Pacific and, after training off the west coast and in the Hawaiian Islands, the carrier cleared Pearl Harbor on May 4 for what began as another peaceful task tour in the Far East. The first three months of implementation bring normal operation - training and port calls.
Initial action
On August 2, while operating in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin, the Maddox destroyer reported being attacked by Vietnam's Navy (North) fleet unit. Within minutes of receiving the message, Ticonderoga sent four, F8E Crusaders armed with rockets into destructive aid. Upon arrival, the Crusaders unveiled Zuni's rocket and fired the North Vietnamese vessel with a 20 mm (0.79 inch) cannon. After the Ticonderoga and Maddox attempts, one boat was left to die in the water and two others were damaged.
Two days later, late on the evening of August 4, Ticonderoga received an urgent request from the destructive Turner Joy at that time patrolling Maddox for inland air support against what is supposedly a destroyer as a runaway torpedo ship. The airline re-launched the aircraft to help surface ships of America, and Turner Joy directed them. The Navy's surface and the air team believe it has drowned two boats and damaged the other pair.
President Lyndon Johnson responded with retaliation for what he felt at the time to be two unprovoked attacks against the American submarine and ordered a retaliatory air strike against the North Vietnamese motorcycle torpedo bases selected. On August 5, Ticonderoga and Constellation launched 60 attacks on four base and their supporting oil storage facilities. The USN attack reportedly resulted in the destruction of 25 PT-type vessels, severe damage to bases, and almost completed razing oil storage depots. For his quick reaction and successful combat action on three occasions, Ticonderoga received the Navy Unit Award.
Stand-down
After a return visit to Japan in September, the aircraft carrier resumed normal operations in the South China Sea until the end of year-end drill. He returned to Naval Air Station North Island, California, on December 15, 1964. After post-deployment and a stand-down holiday, Ticonderoga moved to Shipyard Point Naval Hunter on January 27, 1965 to start five overhaul per month. He completed improvements in June and spent the summer operating along the southern California coast. On September 28, the carrier sailed into the sea for another placement to the East. He spent some time in the Hawaiian Islands for an operational readiness training then proceeded to the Far East. He reached "Dixie Station" on November 5 and immediately started a combat air operation.
1965-66 deployment
The winter spread of the Ticonderoga ' in 1965 and 1966 was his first combat tour tour during American involvement in the Vietnam War. For six months in the Far East, the aircraft carrier spent a total of 116 days in air operations off the coast of Vietnam dividing its time almost evenly between "Dixie" and "Yankee Stations", the carrier operating areas of South and North Vietnam, respectively. Its flight group delivered more than 8,000 short tons (7,300 tonnes) of weaponry in more than 10,000 combat buggies, with the loss of 16 aircraft, but only five pilots. For the most part, his aircraft attacked enemy installations in North Vietnam and banned the supply routes to South Vietnam, including river traffic and waste beaches and canoes and roads, bridges and trucks on land. In particular, they claimed the destruction of 35 bridges as well as a number of warehouses, barracks, trucks, boats, and railway cars as well as severe damage to North Vietnam's main thermal power plant located in Uong Bi north of Haiphong. After stopping at Yokosuka, Japan, from 25 April to 3 May 1966, the warship was put into the sea to return to the United States. On May 13, he stopped at the port in San Diego to end the deployment.
On December 5, 1965, a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk lost to the sea while the mother ship 80 miles (130 km) from Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The plane is being rolled from the bay of the hangar to the elevator. The plane has been installed on it a nuclear bomb B43. The pilot, Lt. JG Douglas Webster, A-4E Skyhawk, Buno 151 022 , from Attack Squadron VA-56 "Champions", and nuclear weapons are all gone. No public mention was made of the incident at that time and it will not be revealed until the 1981 US Department of Defense report reveals that a one-megaton bomb has been lost. Japan then asked details of the incident.
1966-67, 1967-68 deployment
After the repair he stood out of San Diego on July 9 to start the normal round of West Coast training operations. Evolution and similar evolution continued until October 15, when Ticonderoga left San Diego, tied through Hawaii to the western Pacific. The carrier reached Yokosuka, Japan, on October 30 and remained there until November 5 as he headed south for an overnight stop at Subic Bay Base in the US, Subic Bay in the Philippines on November 10-11. On November 13th, Ticonderoga arrived at Tonkin Bay and started the first of three combat tours during its 1966-1967 spreading. He launched 11,650 combat attacks, all against enemy targets located in North Vietnam. Again, the main target is logistics and communication lines and transport facilities. For his contribution and from Air Wing Nineteen to Operation Rolling Thunder, Ticonderoga was awarded his second Navy Award.
He completed his final period on April 27, 1967 and returned to Yokosuka, from where he set off again on May 19 to return to the United States. Ten days later, the carrier entered San Diego and began operating for a whole month. In early July, he moved to Bremerton, Washington, where he entered Puget Sound for two months of repairs. After the completion of work in the yard, he left Bremerton on September 6 and sailed south to a training operation off the coast of southern California.
On December 28, 1967, Ticonderoga sailed for its fourth deployment to the waters off Indochina and arrived at Yankee Station in January 1968. Ticonderoga was at Yankee Station for starters. of the 1968 Tet Offensive. Almost by chance with the Tet Offensive, the siege of Khe Sanh started and Pueblo , the American spy ship, confiscated by North Korea and taken to the port of Wonsan. The Ranger carriers were immediately deployed to the coast of North Korea. Approximately a week later, Ranger was released from Korea by Ticonderoga and returned to Yankee Station. Company joined Ticonderoga and the strike was planned against seven MiG airfields with around 200 MiGs. This strike was never done and Ticonderoga returned to Yankee Station to continue its role in Tet Attack. Between January 1968 and July 1968, Ticonderoga was on the coastline in Vietnam for five separate periods with a total of 120 days of combat duty. During that time, its aircraft wings blew more than 13,000 combat attacks against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, most often in a continuous effort to block enemy supply lines. Between the line period, he regularly returns to Subic Bay and Naval Air Station Cubi Point for rest and recharging. He also made visits to ports in Singapore and Hong Kong. On July 9, during the fifth line period, LCDR John B. Nichols claimed to kill the first MiG Ticonderoga . The operator completed the period and entered Subic Bay for maintenance on July 25th. Ticonderoga then proceeded to his base at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, California arriving on August 17, 1968 after a one day delay in the fog off San Diego on the San Clemente Channel. Shortly after, Ticonderoga moved to Long Beach Naval Shipyard for certain repairs and conversions to deal with the Corsair A-7 jet strikes and to prepare for the fifth fighter voyage in February 1969. End apply
During the first months of 1969, Ticonderoga made preparations for its fifth consecutive fifth placement into the Southeast Asian region. On February 1, he cleans San Diego and heads west. After a short stopover at Pearl Harbor a week later, he traveled to Yokosuka where he arrived on the 20th. The carrier departed Yokosuka on 28 February for the coast of Vietnam where he arrived on March 4th. Over the next four months, Ticonderoga served four periods on the Vietnam off-line, blocking the Communist supply lines and striking against their positions.
During the second period, his official trip abroad ended unexpectedly on April 16 as he shifted north into the Sea of ​​Japan. The North Korean plane had shot down a Navy reconnaissance aircraft in the area, and Ticonderoga was called to strengthen the troops assigned to its surroundings. However, the crisis subsided, and Ticonderoga entered Subic Bay on 27 April for treatment. On May 8, he left the Philippines to return to "Yankee Station" and restart the interdiction operation. Between the third and fourth line periods, operators visit Sasebo and Hong Kong.
The carrier took over Vietnam for its final delivery period on June 26 and there followed 37 more days of very successful air strikes against enemy targets. After the tour, he joined TF 71 in the Sea of ​​Japan for the remainder of the placement. Ticonderoga concludes a very successful placement, as he received his third Navy Unit Award for his operations during his official trip - when he left Subic Bay on 4 September.
Post-Vietnamese service
Ticonderoga arrived in San Diego on September 18th. After nearly a month of post-deployment, he moved to Long Beach Naval Shipyard in mid-October to begin the conversion to an antisubmarine submarine aircraft carrier (ASW). Overhaul and conversion work began on October 20, and Ticonderoga redesigned CVS-14 the next day. He finished his remodel and conversion on May 28, 1970 and did the exercises outside Long Beach for most of June. On June 26, a new ASW-supported carrier entered the port of his new home, San Diego. In July-August, he undertook refresher training, air refresh operations, and operator landing qualifications. He operates California beaches for the rest of the year and participates in two naval exercises - HUKASWEX 4-70 at the end of October and COMPUTEX 23-70 between Nov 30 and Dec 3.
For the rest of his active career, Ticonderoga made two more spreads to the Far East. Due to his changes in the mission, no touring duties including combat operations outside Vietnam. Both, however, include exercises in the Sea of ​​Japan with Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces ships. The first of these two cruise ships also carry operations in the Indian Ocean with Thai Navy units and transit the Sunda Strait where the ceremony was held to commemorate the disappearance of the cruisers Houston and HMASÃ, Perth in 1942.
Among these last two deployments, he operated in the eastern Pacific and participated in the recovery of the Apollo 16 missile capsule and astronauts near American Samoa during April 1972. The second deployment took place in the summer of 1972, and, in addition to training exercises in the Sea of ​​Japan, i> Ticonderoga also joined the ASW training operation in the South China Sea. That fall, he returned to the eastern Pacific and, in November practiced for the restoration of Apollo 17. The following month, Ticonderoga restored his second space-sailing group near American Samoa. The carrier then returned to San Diego where he arrived on December 28th. On June 22, 1973, Ticonderoga restored 2 Skylab astronauts near San Diego.
Ticonderoga remains active for over nine months, first operating from San Diego and then preparing for inactivity. On September 1, 1973, the aircraft carrier was closed after the inspection and survey board found him unfit for further naval services. His name was struck from the Navy list on November 16, 1973, and the arrangements went on sale for memos. He was sold for a September 1, 1975 memo.
Awards
Ticonderoga received five fighting stars during World War II and three Navy Awards, one Meritorious Unit Award, and 12 fighting stars during the Vietnam War.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . Entries can be found here.
- This article covers information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. Entries can be found here.
External links
- Big T .net - USS Ticonderoga Veterans Association
- Navsource Ticonderoga Archive Photos
- Ticonderoga War Damage Report for double kamikaze hit, January 1945
- Genealogy of Rear Admiral William Sinton USN
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