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USS Wasp (CV-7)
was a
United States Navy
aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942.
She was the eighth ship named
USS Wasp,
and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to
the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time.
As a reduced-size version of the
Yorktown-class aircraft carrier hull, Wasp was more vulnerable
than other United States aircraft carriers available at the opening of
hostilities.
Wasp was initially employed in the Atlantic campaign, where Axis naval
forces were perceived as less capable of inflicting decisive damage. After
supporting the
occupation of Iceland in 1941,
Wasp joined the
British Home Fleet in April 1942 and twice ferried British fighter aircraft
to Malta.
Wasp was then transferred to the Pacific in June 1942 to replace losses
at the battles of
Coral Sea and
Midway. After supporting the
invasion of Guadalcanal,
Wasp was sunk by the Japanese
submarine
I-19 on 15 September 1942.
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