12 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Varied, ultimate armament:
1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal gun
8 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns
30 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried
27
Aviation facilities
1 × catapult
2 × elevators
Service record
Part of:
United States Pacific Fleet (1944–1946)
Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946–1957)
Operations:
Operation Magic Carpet
USS Attu (CVE-102) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was named after the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands and was built for service during World War II. Launched in May 1944, and commissioned in June, she served as a transport carrier, ferrying aircraft, and as a replenishment carrier, supporting the Invasion of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned in June 1946, and sold for scrapping in January 1947. After a failed acquisition attempt by the Jewish Agency, she was ultimately scrapped in 1949.
USSAttu (CVE-102) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was named after the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands and...
The Japanese occupation of Attu (Operation AL) was the result of an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. Imperial Japanese Army...
carrier renamed USS White Plains before being launched USS Elbour Bay (CVE-102), a second Casablanca-class escort carrier renamed USSAttu (CVE-102) before...
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Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japanese occupied Kiska and nearby Attu Island in order to protect the northern flank of the Japanese Empire. For...
Attu Island for the 4th Fleet Air Wing until 1 February. Three days later, Gilmore left Attu for Adak escorting merchant ships, and then escorted USS Tippecanoe...
amphibious landing at Massacre Bay on Attu Island during the Battle of Attu. Lamberton continued patrol operations off Attu until late June 1943, when she departed...
Peninsula, then to Attu in the western Aleutians. On 11 May 1943, she arrived off Attu, escorted landing craft into Massacre Bay on Attu's southeast coast...
base at Dutch Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska, where the remoteness of the islands and the challenges of weather...
Replenishment ships: USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86) USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99) 16 Feb – 2 Mar USS Bougainville (CVE-100) USSAttu (CVE-102)...
a visit to the west coast in October, she participated in landings upon Attu, Alaska, in May 1943. After bombarding Kiska, Alaska, she provided gunfire...
Kiichiro Higuchi.[citation needed] After the heavy casualties suffered at Attu Island, Japanese planners were expecting another costly operation. They realized...
acting as communications ship during the recapture of Attu that spring. She moved again to Attu in June, to provide fuel and communications services for...