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| Keywords: USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) disguised as USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) c1955.jpg The U S Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge CVA-33 and the destroyer USS Floyd B Parks DD-884 underway in 1956 <br> Note The photo appeared in the USS Bon Homme Richard CVA-31 1957 cruise book history section and shows a carrier with the pennant number 31 However the carrier is a carrier that received the SCB-27A modernization straight deck and hydraulic catapults The Bon Homme Richard underwent the SCB-27C/SCB-125 modernisation from 3 March 1953 to 31 October 1955 at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard which included an angled deck steam catapults and a hurricane bow She was then deployed to the Western Pacific with assigned Carrier Air Group 21 CVG-21 from 16 August 1956 to 28 February 1957 She was never modernised in the configuartion as the carrier depicted in the photo <br> USS Floyd B Parks DD-884 was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and operated with Kearsarge in 1955-56 The carrier could also be USS Oriskany CVA-34 but she did not operate the McDonnell F2H Banshee visible on deck only Kearsarge Kearsarge returned from her deployment on 17 May 1956 and was modernized SCB-125 until January 1957 U S Navy photo http //www navysite de/cruisebooks/cv31-57/006 htm from the http //www navysite de/cruisebooks/cv31-57/index_002 htm USS Bon Homme Richard CVA-31 1957 cruise book available at http //navysite de/cruisebooks/index html Navysite de 1956 USN thumb left original photo PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Kearsarge CV-33 USS Floyd B Parks DD-884 | ||||
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