Bennington (CV-20) August 6, 1944–January 15, 1970 Scrapped
Boxer (CV-21) April 16, 1945–December 1, 1969 Scrapped
Note: CVL-22 through CVL-30 were classified as “light aircraft carriers” and designated CVL. Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), commissioned November 26, 1944, led the final eleven of the Essex-class CVs commissioned between 1945 and 1950. Despite the fine carriers now preserved as floating museums—Yorktown (CV-10), Intrepid (CV-11), Hornet (CV-12), Lexington (CV-16), and the postwar Midway (CV-B41)—it is a shame that the venerable Saratoga (CV-3) and Enterprise (CV-6) were not preserved. Saratoga met its end in a trial atomic blast in 1946, and Enterprise, despite many efforts to save the ship during the late 1940s and 1950s, was finally given up for scrap with the understanding that its proud name would live on in the navy’s first nuclear-powered carrier, CVN-65.
Source: Adapted from “The Carriers” at www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp
H. Ships Named for the Fleet Admirals
William D. Leahy
USS Leahy (CG-16, formerly DL-G16)
Lead ship in the Leahy class of guided missile cruisers
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
535 feet long; 53 feet beam; 7,800 tons displaced
Launched: July 1, 1961
Sponsor: Mrs. Michael J. Mansfield
Commissioned: August 4, 1962
Decommissioned: October 1, 1993; sold for scrap
Ernest J. King
USS King (DDG-41, formerly DLG-10)
Fifth ship in the Farragut class of guided missile frigates (DLG), later reclassified as a guided missile destroyer (DDG)
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington
512.5 feet long; 52 feet beam; 5,800 tons displaced
Launched: December 6, 1958
Sponsor: Mrs. Oliver W. van den Berg (née Elizabeth King)
Commissioned: November 17, 1960
Decommissioned: March 28, 1991; sold for scrap
Chester W. Nimitz
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
Lead ship in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia
1,092 feet long; 134 feet beam; 97,000 tons displaced
Launched: May 13, 1972
Sponsor: Mrs. James T. Lay (née Catherine Nimitz)
Commissioned: May 3, 1975
Active duty as of 2012
William F. Halsey, Jr.
USS Halsey (CG-23, formerly DLG-23)
Eighth ship in the Leahy class of guided missile cruisers
San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California
535 feet long; 53 feet beam; 7,800 tons displaced
Launched: January 15, 1962
Cosponsors: Miss Jane Frances Halsey and Mrs. Margaret Denham
Commissioned: July 20, 1963
Decommissioned: January 28, 1994; sold for scrap
USS Halsey (DDG-97)
Forty-seventh ship in the Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers
Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Mississippi
508.5 feet long; 67 feet beam; 9,200 tons displaced
Launched: January 9, 2004
Cosponsors: Mrs. Anne Halsey-Smith, Miss Heidi Cooke Halsey, and Mrs. Alice Spruance Talbot
Commissioned: July 30, 2005
Active duty as of 2012
I. Major World War II Conferences and Operations with Code Names
Major Strategic Conferences
Atlantic Charter Conference; August 1941; Placentia Bay, Newfoundland (Riviera)
First Washington Conference; December 1941; Washington, D.C. (Arcadia)
Second Washington Conference; June 1942; Washington, D.C. (Argonaut)
Casablanca Conference; January 1943; Casablanca, Morocco (Symbol)
Third Washington Conference; May 1943; Washington, D.C. (Trident)
First Quebec Conference; August 1943; Quebec, Canada (Quadrant)
Cairo Conference; November 1943; Cairo, Egypt (Sextant)
Teheran Conference; November 1943; Teheran, Iran (Eureka)
Second Quebec Conference; September 1944; Quebec, Canada (Octagon)
Yalta Conference; February 1945; Yalta, Soviet Union (Argonaut)
Potsdam Conference; July 1945; Potsdam, Germany (Terminal)
Major Military Operations
Bolero, preinvasion buildup of American troops in British Isles, 1942
Cartwheel, convergent South Pacific operations against Rabaul, 1943
Coronet, initial plans for invasion of Honshu and Tokyo Plain, 1946
Dragoon, invasion of southern France, August 1944
Flintlock, invasion of Marshall Islands, February 1944
Forager, invasion of Mariana Islands, June 1944
Galvanic, invasion of Gilbert Islands, November 1943
Gymnast, initial plans for invasion of North Africa, 1942
Husky, invasion of Sicily, July 1943
Iceberg, invasion of Okinawa, April 1945
King Two, invasion of Leyte, Philippines, October 1944
Olympic, plans for invasion of Kyushu, 1945
Overlord, invasion of France, June 1944
Roundup, initial plans for invasion of France, 1943
Sledgehammer, initial plans for small-scale attack on France, 1942
Torch, invasion of North Africa, November 1942
Watchtower, invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, August 1942
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