Bon Homme Richard

Timeline For Aircraft Carrier Service - World War II
1 December — USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Intrepid laid down. 26 September — USS Bon Homme Richard renamed USS Yorktown USS Lexington launched. 1 February — USS Hancock and USS Bon Homme Richard laid down ...

Attack On The Sui-ho Dam - Follow-up Missions - Summer 1952 Power Grid Campaign
... from the carriers Philippine Sea, Bon Homme Richard, and Boxer ... Bon Homme Richard's Air Group Seven further damaged Kyosen No.1, but smoke obscured Kyosen No.2, and it was restruck on July 8, destroying its powerhouse and penstocks (piping that delivers water to the turbines) ... plant at Wonsan was attacked for the first time, by aircraft from Bon Homme Richard, which reported it completely destroyed ...

List Of Bridges On The National Register Of Historic Places In South Dakota
05-028-200 1905 1993-12-09 Perkins Bon Homme Pratt Pony truss South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 05-032-170 1912 1993-12-09 Avon Bon Homme Pratt South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 05-138-080 1904 1993-12-09 Tyndall Bon Homme Bedstead South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No ...

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31)
... USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy ... usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris, whose Poor Richard's Almanac had been published in France under the title Les ... Bon Homme Richard was commissioned in November 1944, and served in the final campaigns of the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning one battle star ...

CV31 - Service History
... Bon Homme Richard went to the Pacific in March 1945, and in June joined the fast carriers in the combat zone and took part in the final raids on Japan ... With the end of hostilities in mid-August, Bon Homme Richard continued operations off Japan until September, when she returned to the United States ... The outbreak of the Korean War on 25 June 1950 called Bon Homme Richard back to active duty ...