Sound (Airplane flyover)
CVE-21 Did it First
Now that we
have airplanes that can fly they can't leave without this landing signal
officer. (LSO)
(Taken from official Navy Publication)
· CVE 21 pioneered the use of HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) against the submarine menace in the Atlantic.
· The planes of CVE 21 were the first to use airborne rockets in attack on German submarines.
· CVE 21 was the first and only US Naval Aircraft Carrier sunk by enemy action in the Atlantic.
· The crew of CVE 21 was the first crew of a US Naval vessel which had been sunk in combat to be maintained as a unit until another ship of the same name could be prepared for its use in WW2.
CVE 21 was the first US Navy aircraft carrier to
pioneer the hunter/killer process as put into operation by it’s Captain Logan
Ramsey in the search for German sub-marines in WW2.
1/10/2002
A small reproduction of an artist sketch (made in 1943) of an F4 fighter
being flown off the deck of CVE 21. Depending on the bomb, rocket or
torpedo weight (or available wind) controlled the decision to launch
the aircraft by catapult or go to direct fly off.