USS Windham Bay ( CVE - 92 ) USS " Windham Bay " ( CVE - 92 ) was an " Casablanca " class escort carrier of the United States Navy . She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1129 ) on 5 January 1944 at Vancouver , Washington , by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co . ; launched on 29 March 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Henry M . Cooper ; and commissioned on 3 May 1944 , Captain Charles W . Oexle in command . Service history . World War II . Following commissioning , " Windham Bay " conducted shakedown training in Puget Sound and then headed for San Diego on 6 June . There , she conducted air qualifications and catapult trials before taking on a load of Hawaii - bound aircraft and passengers . She departed San Diego on 12 June and arrived in Pearl Harbor on the 19th . Trading her cargo of aircraft and passengers for a similar one bound for the Marshall Islands , " Windham Bay " stood out of the harbor on 25 June and arrived at Majuro on 2 July . After unloading her aircraft , she moved on to Kwajalein where she loaded planes and men of Marine Night Fighter Squadron 532 ( VMF ( N ) - 532 ) and headed for the Marianas . The Marines flew off near Saipan , and " Windham Bay " put into Garapan anchorage to unload the squadron ' s gear . Afterward , the escort carrier took on a load of captured Japanese aircraft and other material for transportation back to Hawaii . She arrived in Pearl Harbor on 10 July and remained there for 15 days , getting underway for the west coast on 25 July . The warship arrived in San Diego on 31 July and soon began overhaul at San Pedro . Repairs took the entire month of August , but she was back at sea on 1 September with a load of aircraft bound for Emirau and Manus . She arrived at Emirau at mid - month and at Manus on the 18th . From there , she voyaged to Espiritu Santo on a passenger run , returning to Manus on 5 October with a load of planes . After a brief visit to Guadalcanal during the second week in October , she got underway for the United States . " Windham Bay " steamed via Espiritu Santo and arrived in San Diego on 20 October . In November , she made another voyage from the west coast to the South Pacific , carrying aircraft to Manus and picking up about 350 casualties from the Palau campaign at Guadalcanal on 24 November for the return voyage to San Diego . The escort carrier remained at San Diego from 10 December until the 27th when she resumed aircraft ferrying operations . She arrived in Pearl Harbor on 2 January 1945 , unloaded one cargo of aircraft there and took on another made up of F4U Corsair s . She departed Pearl Harbor on 5 January and arrived at Midway Island on the 9th to unload the Corsairs . Departing Midway the next day , " Windham Bay " returned to Oahu on the 13th . On 1 February , the ship stood out of Pearl Harbor on her way to the Central Pacific . Carrying replacement aircraft for the fleet carriers of Task Force 58 , she made a stop at Eniwetok on her way to the staging base at Ulithi Atoll in the Western Carolines . From there , she operated with the 5th Fleet Logistics Group , Task Group 50 . 8 , in support of the fast carrier strikes conducted during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations . During the next four months , she visited Guam and the Ryukyu Islands . On 4 June to 5 June , while steaming with the logistics group in support of TF 58 and the strikes on Okinawa , the carrier steamed right through the famous typhoon of 1945 , suffering lost and damaged planes as well as damage to her flight and hangar decks . On 16 June , she cleared the Marianas en route to Oahu . The warship arrived in Pearl Harbor on the 25th but departed again two days later . She entered port at San Diego on 11 July , and immediately began repairs to correct the typhoon damage she had suffered earlier in the month . Those repairs lasted through late August , so that she missed the final weeks of the war . On 26 August , she departed San Diego on her way back to the Central Pacific carrying Marine Fighter Squadron 312 ( VMF - 312 ) to Guam . She stopped briefly at Pearl Harbor and arrived in Apra Harbor on 15 September . After unloading passengers and cargo at Guam , " Windham Bay " headed for Samar in the Philippines where she arrived on 19 September . There , she loaded passengers , planes , and equipment for transportation back to Hawaii . She got underway from Leyte on 24 September , made a stop at Guam on the 27th , and arrived back at Oahu on 7 October . On the 8th , she continued eastward toward the west coast and arrived at San Diego on the 14th . Five days later , the ship headed back to Pearl Harbor on her way to participate in Operation " Magic Carpet " , the return of American servicemen to the United States . After a round - trip voyage to San Pedro , California , and back to Pearl Harbor , she set out for the western Pacific once more on 13 November . Arriving at Samar in the Philippines on the 26th , she loaded passengers and then headed east again on the 28th . She stopped at Oahu along the way and arrived in Port Hueneme , California , on 17 December . She moved to San Pedro on the 18th and remained there through the New Year . On 8 January 1946 , " Windham Bay " departed San Pedro , headed for Hawaii , and arrived in Pearl Harbor on 14 January . She departed Oahu again on the 15th and arrived in San Pedro on the 21st . Within days , however , she moved north to Tacoma , Washington , where she reported for duty with the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 25 January 1946 . She remained there — in commission , in reserve — until 23 August 1946 when she was placed out of commission . Korean War . The escort carrier stayed with the Reserve Fleet until hostilities erupted in Korea during the summer of 1950 . On 28 October 1950 , she was recommissioned at Bremerton , Washington , Capt . Charles E . Brunton in command . On 20 November , she steamed south to California , visiting San Francisco on the way to San Diego where she arrived on 2 December . After 11 days , the escort carrier returned to San Francisco whence she embarked upon a voyage to Pearl Harbor on the 19th . Returning to the west coast at Alameda on 2 January 1951 , the warship headed west again five days later . She arrived in Yokohama , Japan , on the 24th and unloaded a cargo of aircraft for use in the Korean War which the United States had entered under the auspices of the United Nations . Departing Japan two days later , she visited Saigon in French Indochina and Manila in the Philippines before shaping a course back to the United States . " Windham Bay " reentered San Francisco Bay on 24 February . At this juncture , the escort carrier settled into a routine of transpacific resupply voyages between the United States and Japan . Over the next 20 months , she made nine round - trip voyages , beginning each at either San Francisco or San Diego , stopping always at Yokosuka , and returning always to San Francisco . She broke that nine - voyage routine in October and November 1952 when she visited Takao , Japan , and Bangkok , Thailand , before returning via Japan to the west coast at Alameda on 9 December . Windham Bay continued her aircraft ferrying voyages between the United States and Japan during 1953 . The war in Korea , however , began to subside in intensity at about the same time , and her passages began to take on more of a peacetime character . She began making more stops and side trips in addition to Yokosuka — notably to Hawaii , the Philippines , and at other Japanese ports . French Indochina also returned to her itinerary in May 1954 and again in February and March 1955 when she made visits to Saigon , capital of the newly constituted Republic of Vietnam . On 12 June 1955 , she was redesignated CVU - 92 . In May 1957 , she added Naha , Okinawa , to her list of ports of call ; and , in December , she made one more stop at Saigon . Otherwise , the remainder of her career consisted of the normal west coast - to - Japan aircraft resupply voyages in support of the fast carriers assigned to the western Pacific . Her career lasted until the end of 1958 . In January 1959 , she was decommissioned and was berthed with the San Francisco Group , Pacific Reserve Fleet . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 February 1959 , and she was subsequently sold to the Hugo Neu Steel Products Corp . , of New York City . The ship was scrapped in Japan in February 1961 . Awards . " Windham Bay " earned three battle star s during World War II .