What does CVE stand for?

Escort Carrier (US Navy vessel)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Many of the fliers had transferred from the fleet carrier Indomitable to an escort carrier, and they now had to deal with a flight deck that was 30 percent smaller and a ship that was 10 knots slower.

Kamikaze killer: the naval version of the Spitfire had its share of ...

As all readers of this journal know, Halsey took his entire force with him to chase down a decoy rather than divide it and provide a blocking force of battleships and escort carriers to prevent a Japanese exit from the San Bernardino Strait.

Adams, John A. If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of ...

Navy veteran of World War II, he served in the Pacific aboard the escort carrier, USS GILBERT ISLANDS (CVE 107) and participated in the battles of Okinawa and Balikpapan, Borneo.

Leo G. Hisoire

Far from being a young man, he was already 43 and married and with three children before he joined the Escort Carrier which was to be his home for the next 18 months.

Honouring father

In February, 1941, the Ministry of War Transport agreed to reserve ships then being built for possible conversion to escort carriers.

Salute to heroes of sea

Flying Fairey Swordfish Bi-planes with open cockpits, operating from escort carriers.

Letter: Convoy heroism

In mid-1951, the squadron and its TBM-3S/3W Avengers were ferried to the war zone on board Sicily (CVE 118), where the squadron conducted antisubmarine warfare (ASW) patrols from the escort carrier, as well as from Rendova (CVE 114).

Sea control squadrons deactivated

Ike" Giffen cautiously guided a conglomeration of carriers, cruisers, escort carriers and destroyers toward the Solomon Islands.

Battle of Rennell Island Setback in the Solomons