Question: Richard Halsey Best was stationed on the ship that earned how many battle stars?
Sentence (from "USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)"): "Ticonderoga" was commissioned in May 1944, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning five battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS).
Relevant evidence: No