USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the US Navy
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- USS Cowpens (CV-25/CVL-25/AVT-1) , nicknamed The Mighty Moo , was an 11,000-ton Independence -class light aircraft carrier that served the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947.
- Margaret Bradford Spruance (née Halsey, daughter of Fleet Admiral William F.
- She was reclassified CVL-25 on 15 July 1943.
- Service history World War II 1943 Departing Philadelphia, on 29 August 1943, Cowpens arrived at Pearl Harbor on 19 September to begin the active and distinguished war career which was to earn her a Navy Unit Commendation.
- The ship was slightly damaged on 18 October in a collision with the destroyer USS Abbot (DD-629) while patrolling near Hawaii.
USS Cowpens (CV-25/CVL-25/AVT-1), nicknamed The Mighty Moo, was an 11,000-ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier that served the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947.
Cowpens, named for the Battle of Cowpens of the Revolutionary War, was launched on 17 January 1943 at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, in Camden, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. Margaret Bradford Spruance (née Halsey, daughter of Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr.) and commissioned on 28 May 1943 by Captain R. P. McConnell. She was reclassified CVL-25 on 15 July 1943. Cowpens completed her active service at the end of 1946.
Service history
World War II
1943
Departing Philadelphia, on 29 August 1943, Cowpens arrived at Pearl Harbor on 19 September to begin the active and distinguished war career which was to earn her a Navy Unit Commendation. She sailed with Task Force 14 for the strike on Wake Island on 5–6 October, then returned to Pearl Harbor to prepare for strikes on the Marshall Islands preliminary to invasion. The ship was slightly damaged on 18 October in a collision with the destroyer USS Abbot (DD-629) while patrolling near Hawaii. Abbot was much more heavily damaged, requiring three months to repair at Pearl Harbor. Cowpens sortied from Pearl Harbor 10 November to launch air strikes on Mille and Makin atolls from 19 to 24 November, and Kwajalein and Wotje on 4 December, returning to her base on 9 December.
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