ORIGINAL VINTAGEUNITED STATES NAVY **WINGS AND WAKE 55 **CRUISE BOOK FOR THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS PHILIPPINE SEA CVS-47 WESTERN PACIFIC DEPLOYMENT 1955. PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICER’S & CREWAS A PERMANENT RECORD OF THESHIPS ACTIVITIE\'S DURING HER DEPLOYMENT 1955. HARD COVERED BOOK MEASURES 9\"X 11 1\\2\" PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED 219 PAGES WITHPHOTOS OF THE SHIP & CREW MEMBERS. THIS BOOK FEATURES >>>COMMANDING OFFICER CAPTAIN HERMAN L. RAY - EXECUTIVEOFFICER JAY C. WHISTLER - CREW PHOTOS. ADMINISTRATION - AIR - COMMUNICATIONS -DECK - DENTAL - ENGINEERING - EXECUTIVE - GUNNERY - NAVIGATION - OPERATIONS ANDSUPPLY DEPARTMENTS. AIRTASK GROUP TWO - VF-123 - VF-143 - VA-55 - VC-11 - VC-35 - VC-61 - AND HU-1. SHIPS HISTORY - LIFE AT SEA - MAIL CALL - MISS PHILIPPINE SEA - REPLENISHMENT AT SEA -SPORTS ONBOARD - FLIGHT DECK OPERATIONS. PORTS VISITED - HAWAII - OKINAWA - HONGKONG - FORMOSA - JAPAN. THIS IS A DEFINITIVEHISTORY OF THE SHIIPS ACTIVITIESDURING HERDEPLOYMENT 1955. BOOK IS IN GOOD PRE-OWNED CONDITION - PLEASE SEE SCANS.
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USS Philippine Sea (CV-47, later CVA-47, CVS-47 and AVT-11), 1946-1971USS Philippine Sea, a 27,100-ton Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in May 1946, she made an initial cruise to the Caribbean, then took part in Operation \"Highjump\", the 1947 expedition to the Antarctic led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. In 1948 and again in 1949, Philippine Sea deployed to the Mediterranean, with a period of Arctic operations intervening in late 1948. Following exercises in the Caribbean and the western Atlantic, in May 1950 the carrier was sent through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet.When war erupted in Korea late in June 1950, Philippine Sea was soon ordered to steam westward to support United Nations forces as they attempted to defend the Republic of Korea against Communist aggression. She entered action in early August, and thrust air power into the conflict for ten months as the fighting front retreated, advanced northward, retreated and advanced again, and finally stabilized near where it had started a year earlier. The carrier returned to the U.S. in June 1951, but made two more Korean combat tours, one in January-July 1952 and the last in January-July 1953. During this time, in October 1952, she was redesignated CVA-47.With the fighting over, Philippine Sea continued her pattern of Far Eastern tours with a deployment in March-November 1954, during which her planes shot down two attacking Chinese fighters off Hainan Island. She returned to the Western Pacific in April-November 1955, and was then converted to an anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier and redesignated CVS-47. In that role, Philippine Sea made two more cruises in Asian waters, one in the Spring of 1957 and the last in January-July 1958. She was decommissioned in December 1958. Reclassified as an aircraft transport, with the hull number AVT-11, she spent more than a decade in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. USS Philippine Sea was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1969 and sold for scrapping in March 1971.
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