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 (1946-1958)
Operations:
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
Philippines campaign
Battle of Leyte
Battle off Samar
Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Operation Magic Carpet
USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) was the twenty-sixth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Petrof Bay, which in turn was named in 1928 after Ivan Petroff, a Russian Alaskan who served as a special census agent for the 1880 United States census. The bay is located within Kuiu Island, which at the time was a part of the Territory of Alaska.[3] The ship was launched in January 1944, commissioned in February, and served in support of the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, the Philippines campaign, including the Battle off Samar, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa. She was decommissioned in July 1946, when she was mothballed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet. Ultimately, she was broken up in September 1959.
^Kaiser Vancouver 2010.
^Chesneau & Gardiner 1980, p. 109.
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Petrof Bay
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