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Kitkun Bay

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ClassCasablanca class
TypeEscort carrier (CVE)
HullCVE-71
FateAfloat. In Taffy 3 off Samar. Not sunk.
Armament (class)Escort carrier. Flight deck over a merchant hull, small island set aft, one 5-inch gun.
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.

Kitkun Bay
U.S. Navy. Kitkun Bay (CVE-71), carrying aircraft. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Kitkun Bay was a Casablanca-class escort carrier, CVE-71. Captain J. P. Whitney had her. Her air group was VC-5.

On 25 October 1944 she was one of Sprague's six carriers. She was not sunk by the Japanese guns. Planes from the escort carriers attacked Kurita's ships through the morning. Those attacks are not credited to one carrier, and the ships they damaged are not credited to Kitkun Bay alone.

She survived the war.

The pictures on this page are the originals.