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Bunker Hill

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ClassEssex class
TypeAircraft carrier (CV)
HullCV-17
FateAfloat. Two kamikazes hit her on 11 May 1945. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)Fleet carrier. Flight deck, with the island set aft of amidships.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Bunker Hill
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) at sea in 1945. Note: The original photograph is dated 16 October 1945. Bunker Hill was still under repair at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington (USA), from kamikaze damage received on 11 May 1945 when the war ended in mid-August. On 27. Public domain.

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. George Albert Seitz was her captain from 24 January 1945 until he was relieved on 18 August 1945.

On 1 April 1945 she was off Okinawa as Mitscher's flagship. He flew his flag in her there through the weeks that followed.

That duty lasted until 11 May 1945, when two kamikazes hit the carrier. She stayed afloat. The ship was not sunk. Bunker Hill survived the war. A later United States Navy ship of the same name was a separate hull.

Bunker Hill afire. U.S. Navy combat film, National Archives NPC-7969. The reel is dated 14 April 1945. Public domain.