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White Plains

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ClassCasablanca class
TypeEscort carrier (CVE)
HullCVE-66
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.

White Plains
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-302258. White Plains at San Diego, about April 1944. Hull number 66 is on the bow. Public domain.

White Plains was a Casablanca-class escort carrier, CVE-66. Captain D. J. Sullivan had her. The portrait shows her at San Diego in the spring of 1944, hull number 66 on the bow, a tug alongside.

On 25 October 1944 she was in Taffy 3. Salvos fell close. She was not sunk. No one Japanese ship is credited with a hit on her that decided anything. She got out with the carriers that lived.

The pictures on this page are the originals.