page_title: USS Kearsarge (CV-33)
section_title: Korean War
hierarchical_section_title: USS Kearsarge (CV-33) / Service history / Korean War
caption_attribution_description: English: USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) cruise book, 1953 - Caine Mutiny filming.
context_page_description: USS Kearsarge was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the third US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for a Civil War-era steam sloop. Kearsarge was commissioned in March 1946. Modernized in the early 1950s as an attack carrier, she served in the Korean War, for which she earned two battle stars. In the late 1950s she was further modified to become an anti-submarine carrier. Kearsarge was the recovery ship for the last two manned Project Mercury space missions in 1962–1963. She completed her career serving in the Vietnam War, earning five battle stars.
  She was decommissioned in 1970, and sold for scrap in 1974.
context_section_description: Kearsarge recommissioned on 15 February 1952 with Captain Louis B. French in command.  Following shakedown, the carrier cleared San Diego on 11 August for intensive flight training in the Hawaiian Islands. Her readiness complete, she sailed for the Far East to engage in combat missions in the Korean War. Arriving at Yokosuka on 8 September, Kearsarge joined the fast carrier Task Force 77 (TF 77) off the east coast of Korea six days later. For the next five months, the carrier's planes flew nearly 6,000 sorties against Communist forces in North Korea, unleashing considerable damage on enemy positions. She completed her tour in late February 1953, returning to her home port of San Diego on 17 March. While serving in Korea her classification was changed to CVA-33.
  After returning to San Diego, Kearsarge was used in the filming of the 1954 movie The Caine Mutiny to depict the abortive visit to Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. aboard his unnamed flagship.
caption: Souvenir from filming The Caine Mutiny
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