posted 05-31- 07:43 PM
USS CabotAwards: Presidential Unit Citation, American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign with Nine Battle Stars, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal with "Asia" Clasp, Philippine Liberation Campaign Ribbon with Two Stars, Philippine Presidential unit Citation Badge. Korean-era: Navy Occupation Service Medal with "Europe" Clasp and National Defense Service Medal.
The USS Cabot CVL 28, a designated National Historic Landmark is the last of nine Independence Class light aircraft carriers built in existence and the only aircraft carrier still in WW II configuration. Except for the Island Tower, antenna arrays and a reduction of two of the four boiler uptakes she is as built by the New York Shipbuilding Company in 1942. She was named after John Cabot, the Venetion navigator who discovered New Foundland for Henry VIII.
Her service saw 18 months of combat in the Pacific theater of operations earning her nine battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation fo extraordinary heroism. 356 Japanese aircraft were destroyed and 265 enemy vessel hit or sunk with torpedos and bombs. During that time she lost 120 men and officers, 35 men at one time by Kamikaze attacks earning her the name "Iron Woman of the Pacific", from war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
As a side note, stationed on two of her sister carriers during WW II, the USS San Jacinto and the USS Monterey were future Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford.
After WW II she was classified ATV-3 assigned to training duties, mothballed, reactivated during the Korean Conflict then leased and later sold to Spain in 1967.
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