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)
Pacific Reserve Fleet (1946–1960)
Operations:
Operation Magic Carpet
USS Kwajalein (CVE-98) was the forty-fourth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after the Battle of Kwajalein, in which American forces captured Kwajalein Atoll. The ship was launched in May 1944, commissioned in June, and served in support of the Philippines campaign. Later in the war, she served as a replenishment carrier, during which she was damaged by Typhoon Cobra. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, repatriating U.S. servicemen from throughout the Pacific. She was decommissioned in May 1946, when she was mothballed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Ultimately, she was sold for scrapping in January 1961.
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