The lead ship of her class of escort-carriers, USS Bogue was launched on 15 January 1942 and commissioned into the US Navy on 26 September 1942. Originally classified AVG-9, this was changed to ACV-9 on 20 August 1942; CVE-9 on 15 July 1943 and CVHE-9, on 12 June 1955. She was part of an effective force, where aircraft operating from Bogue or ships escorting the carrier claimed ten German and two Japanese submarines between May 1943 and July 1945.
Post-war Bogue transported service-personnel home during Operation Magic Carpet”. She also transported captured Japanese aircraft to the US for evaluation.
Placed in Reserve on 30 November 1946, she was struck from the Navy Register on 1 March 1959. She was sold for scrap the following year.
USS Bogue CVE-9 being launchedUSS Bogue CVE-9 just after being launchedUSS Bogue (ACV-9) underway in Puget Sound, Washington on 27 October 1942USS Bogue (ACV-9) underway in Puget Sound, Washington on 3 November 1942USS Bogue (ACV-9) underway near Norfolk, Virginia 20 June 1943USS Bogue CVE-9 June 1943USS Bogue CVE-9 ferrying aircraft in the PacificUSS Bogue CVE-9 June 1944USS Bogue (CVE-9) underway in the Atlantic Ocean, circa 1944-1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4AUSS Bogue CVE-9 was at anchor in Yokohama Harbor, Tokyo Bay for Christmas,1945USS Bogue (CVE-9) at anchor at Bermuda, a pair of TBM Avengers Bogue wears Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4AUSS Bogue CVE-9
Aircraft Operations
Grumman F4F Wildcat
F4F-4 Wildcat (# 12108) release ring failed. Plane taxied off bow of USS Bogue CVE-9 and crashed. Pilot, Lieutenant R.L. Johnson, was uninjured
Grumman TBF Avenger
Grumman Avenger on a snow covered USS Bogue CVE-9Crewmen trying to lift a Avenger of VC-69 out of the catwalk of the USS Bogue (CVE-9) on 19 June 1944USS Bogue (CVE-9) at anchor at Bermuda, a pair of TBM Avengers Bogue wears Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4A
Anti-Submarine Operations
Captain Aurelius B. Vosseller (left) on the bridge with USS Bogue CVE-9’s scoreboardU-Boat U-117 attacked and sunk off the Azores by aircraft from USS Bogue CVE-9Kapitänleutnant Just, commander of the sunken German submarine U-546 comes aboard USS Bogue
Transporting Captured Japanese Aircraft
Tachikawa Ki-74 (front) and Nakajima G8N1 on the deck of USS Bogue CVE-9Japanese airplane Tachikawa Ki-77 carried on USS Bogue CVE-9USS Bogue CVE-9 was at anchor in Yokohama Harbor, Tokyo Bay for Christmas,1945
