USS BENNINGTON

PHOTO GALLERY

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PHOTO GALLERY INTRODUCTION


A NEW TIME OF UNITY

Yokosuka Flag

USS BENNINGTON
YOKOSUKA, JAPAN - 1962

We were proud then
We are proud now



The photographs in this gallery have been donated for your viewing enjoyment by members of the USS BENNINGTON crew or their friends or family.

If you have some photos you would like to share, please contact us.




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PHOTO GALLERY INTRODUCTION

USS BENNINGTON
PRE COMMISSIONING
CV-20


FLIGHTDECK CATWALK GUNS
1944


USS BENNINGTON CV-20
26 FEB 1944


FLIGHT OPS
20 OCT 1944


USS BENNINGTON
CV-20
1945


BENNINGTON Shares
in Sinking of
Japan's Super
Battleship YAMATO


Aerial Photo
June 1945


5 June 1945 - Damaged by a typhoon off Okinawa
12 June 1945 - Retired to Leyte for repairs


Busy B Cover
July 1945


Plane Down
Series
1945


Some
Crew Members
USS Bennington
1945


Flight Deck Crew
USS Bennington
1945


Yee Hearty Corpsmen
USS Bennington
1945


5 in Aft Gun Crew
USS Bennington
1945


Medical personnel
from USS Bennington
30 Aug - 6 Sep 1945


Bennington Picture
1945


Leaving
New York Harbor
1952 November


USS Bennington
CVA-20
Quonset Point
1953


BENNINGTON
CVA-20
FRESH AND READY
1953


BENNINGTON
CVA-20
1953


Rough Water
Refuel
1953


MED CRUISE
1953
Dick Becker


EXPLOSIONS
26 MAY 1954


BENNINGTON
CVA 20
ORIGINAL
11x14 PHOTO


BENNINGTON
CVA 20
ORIGINAL
COLOR PHOTO


Underway
March 1955


Shakedown
March 1955


JOEY TATA
1955-6
Beverly Hills 90210?


CVA 20
Returning to Brooklyn
1955


My First
Whirly Bird Ride
1955


Underway
to Cape Horn
September 1955


San Diago
After Cape Horn
October 1955


COLOR PHOTO
CVA-20
1955


U.S. Navy Photo
1955


VA 42's AD3's
in formation
1956


NAVY LOG
1956-1957


GRUMMAN
F9F COUGAR
(~1956-1959)


LEAVING PEARL
1956


F9F IN FLIGHT
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


F9F COUGAR
LANDING
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


F9F COUGAR
ON DECK
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


F9F COUGAR
TOUCH AND GO
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


FJ3'S FLIGHT QUARTERS
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


FJ3'S IN FLIGHT
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


FJ3 ON DECK
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


AJ3 LANDING
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


USS Bennington
CVA-20
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


REFUELING
AT SEA
3 Oct 1956
23 May 1957


BENNINGTON
DOWN UNDER
1957


BENNINGTON
SALUTE TO
USS ARIZONA
1958


BIG WAVES
OVER THE
CVA-20 BOW
1958


Dependent's Cruise
Out of San Diego
1960


BENNINGTON
FAR EAST CRUISE
1960


A DIVISION
FAR EAST CRUISE
1960


Cook Inlet
Juneau Alaska
August 1963


JFK Memoral services
25 Nov 1963


Bennington Patch
Far East Cruise
1964


USS Bennington
Post Card
~1964


BENNINGTON BOW SHOT
14 JULY 1964


RUSSIAN BADGER
FLY BY
1964


BENNINGTON Refueling
USS Mispillion
(AO-105)
USS Alfred A. Cunningham
(DD-752)


Willy Fudd
probably VAW-11
1964


HAVE CAMERA
WILL TRAVEL
Huk Ster
August 1964


HS-8 RECOVERY (~1962-1965)

VA 125
Jan 1965


USS Bennington passing the Arizona Memorial 1965

CVS-20 - PROP ALLEY
1965


BENNINGTON'S GAS STATION
1965


(COD) Carrier Onboard Delivery
1965


XC-142A TESTED
ON BENNINGTON
18 May 1966


SKYRAIDER A1-E
May 1966


BENNINGTON GIRLS
May 1966


C. Van Epen
Gun Boat Bennington
Crew Member
June 3 1966


Take The Oath
1966


Same film
different day!
1966


Target Practice
1966


Girl Scouts Visit
Bennington in drydock
1966


New Ships Store
1966


VS-33 AND VS-38
November 1966


Joey Heatherton
December 1966


Gerald Hampton
kissing Miss World
Dec. 26, 1966


Bennington in Australia
May 1967


9 Nov 1967
Bennington
recovery of
Apollo 4 - NASA


CVS-20
Off California
25 Nov 1967


BENNINGTON
AT PEARL HARBOR
7 MAY 1968
Pearl Web Cam


BENNINGTON
AT SEA
14 May 1968


BENNINGTON
AT PEARL HARBOR
20 May 1968


BENNINGTON
LEAVING PEARL HARBOR
MAY 1968


HS-8 RESCUE (August 1968
training exercise
off San Diego)


Long Beach Carrier
Hunts Vainly
For Subs
17 October 1968


BENNINGTON
AIRCRAFT
(CVS-20)
S2E from VS-33
October 1968


S-2E #152808
NT-31 VS-38
27 October 1968


E-1B #147238
RR-761 VAW-111
Det. 20
27 October 1968


USS BENNINGTON
May 1991
Bremerton, Wa


THE USS BENNINGTON SHIPS BELL 1993


SOME of the last pictures ever
taken of the
Bennington
Nov-Dec 1994



MICKEY'S - PENSACOLA REUNION - 1997

F-18 IN TRANSONIC FLIGHT


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