File:USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1) at Pearl Harbor in 1942.jpg
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The U.S. Navy aviation transport USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1) at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor in early 1942. Note the bow of a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier on the left. After shakedown Kitty Hawk departed New York on 16 December 1941, for Hawaii via the Panama Canal with aircraft to replace the losses in the Japanese attack and arrived Pearl Harbor 8 February 1942. She unloaded her planes at Hickani Field and returned to the U.S. mainland 25 February. Kitty Hawk returned to Pearl Harbor 17 May. Intelligence reports arrived indicating that a Japanese fleet was approaching the Hawaiian Islands. Immediately Kitty Hawk loaded the men, armament, and equipment of the 3d Marine Defense Battalion and planes of Marine Air Groups 21 and 45 and sailed at top speed to reinforce Midway, escorted by Owyn. Kitty Hawk delivered men and aircraft to Midway on 26 May 1942. Escorted by destroyers USS Gwin (DD-433) and USS Sicard (DD-346), Kitty Hawk departed Midway 29 May and arrived at Honolulu on 1 June 1942. |
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| Source | Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-16756 in: "Robert J. Cressmann (ed.): A Glorious Page in Our History. The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June 1942. Pictoral Histories Publishing, Missoula/Montana 1990. ISBN 0929521404, p. 36. |
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