USS Munda ( CVE - 104 ) USS " Munda " ( CVE - 104 ) was a United States Navy " Casablanca " - class escort aircraft carrier . She was the last of the series to be built . More " Casablanca " - class carriers were built than any other single class of aircraft carrier in history , and the last to be built on the Liberty Ship platform ; the " Commencement Bay " class escort carrier which followed was designed from the keel up as a carrier . She was laid down on 29 March 1944 under Maritime Commission contract as MC hull 1141 by the Kaiser Shipyards , Vancouver , Washington , originally designated ACV - 104 , and redesignated CVE - 104 on 15 July 1944 . Originally named Tonowek Bay on 23 September 1944 , the carrier was renamed Munda on 6 November 1944 , in honor of the battle to take Munda Bay in the Solomon Islands . It was during this fight that Rodger Wilton Young was killed . Some commemorative photographs of the ship gave the name as " Munda Bay . " " Munda " was launched on 27 May 1944 ( sponsored by Mrs . James E . Dyer ) , to be accepted and commissioned on 8 July 1944 , under the command of Captain L . A . Pope ( a Naval aviator who had , in the 1920s , literally " written the book " on aerial photography for the Navy ) . Service history . After a west coast shakedown , " Munda " , assigned to Carrier Transport Squadron , Pacific Fleet , got underway independently on 16 August 1944 on her maiden voyage . With 71 planes and 202 passengers crowded aboard , she arrived at Espiritu Santo on 1 September . Proceeding next to Finschhafen and Manus Island , she returned to Alameda , California for brief availability , before setting out again to carry replacement planes and personnel to forward areas . Returning from her second supply run on 5 December , she was underway again on the 12th . She completed three more runs to various islands in the Pacific before mid - 1945 , when she sailed for Eniwetok on 3 July . There , she joined Task Group 30 . 8 ( TG 30 . 8 ) and commenced supplying planes , pilots , and aviation stores to the fast carriers of Task Force 38 ( TF 38 ) . She rendezvoused with that force on 20 July , as it attacked the Japan ese home islands , and remained in the area through the 26th , when she returned to Guam for replenishment . At sea again by the end of the month , she rejoined TF 38 on 3 August , resupplying the carriers then , and again on the 7th and 11th . On 13 August , she departed the formation and was en route back to Guam when she received word of the Japan ese surrender . Rejoining TG 30 . 8 , she remained off Japan through the first week of the occupation , and on 10 September steamed into Tokyo Bay . Departing Tokyo on 2 October , she joined the ships assigned to Operation Magic Carpet , and into the next year , ferried servicemen back to the United States . After completion of that duty on 18 January 1946 , " Munda " prepared for inactivation at Port Angeles , Washington . Decommissioned on 13 September 1946 , she joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet , berthing at Tacoma , Washington . Redesignated CVU - 104 on 12 June 1955 , she was shifted to Bremerton on 29 April 1958 . " Munda " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1958 and sold as scrap , 17 June 1960 , to the General Ore Company , New York . Awards . " Munda " received one battle star for her service in World War II , and was reported to have been struck by kamikaze planes .