Navy Veterans
Aircraft Carriers
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels, used to deploy balloons, into nuclear powered warships that carry dozens of fixed and rotary wing aircraft.
Aircraft carriers played an integral role in World War II, and helped save the lives of many Americans. Unfortunately, those who served on US air craft carriers may have been exposed to harmful amounts of asbestos. Below is a list of aircraft carriers that may have contributed to asbestos exposure to veterans.
- USS Admiralty Islands
- USS America
- USS Antietam
- USS Antietam CV 36-1
- USS Badoeng Strait
- USS Bairoko
- USS Belleau Wood
- USS Bennington
- USS Block Island
- USS Bogue
- USS Bon Homme Richard
- USS Boxer
- USS Bunker
- USS Cabot
- USS Card
- USS Constellation
- USS Coral Sea
- USS Corregidor
- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
- USS Essex
- USS Fanshaw Bay
- USS Forrestal
- USS George Washington
- USS Hancock
- USS Hornet CV 8
- USS Hornet CV 12
- USS Independence CVL 22
- USS Intrepid
- USS John F. Kennedy
- USS Juneau CL-119
- USS Kalinin Bay
- USS Kitty Hawk AKV-1
- USS Kitty Hawk CV-63
- USS Kwajalein
- USS Lake Champlain
- USS Lexington
- USS Liscome Bay
- USS Makin Island
- USS Marcus Island
- USS Midway
- USS Nassau
- USS Nimitz
- USS Oriskany
- USS Petrof Bay
- USS Princeton
- USS Puget Sound
- USS Ranger
- USS Sable IX
- USS San Jacinto
- USS Saratoga
- USS Shangri La
- USS Sicily
- USS Steamer Bay
- USS Wright