Allied Warships

USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60)

Escort carrier of the Casablanca class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Casablanca
Pennant	CVE 60
Built by	Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. (Vancouver, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	17 Jul 1942
Laid down	5 Jan 1943
Launched	5 Jun 1943
Commissioned	25 Sep 1943
End service	15 Jul 1946
History	Decommissioned 15 July 1946. Stricken 27 May 1958. Sold 30 April 1959 and scrapped in Japan in January 1960.

Commands listed for USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. Daniel Vincent Gallery, Jr., USN	25 Sep 1943	16 Sep 1944 (1)
2	T/Capt. Burnham Clough McCaffree, USN	16 Sep 1944	8 Aug 1945 (1)
3	T/Capt. Shirley Snow Miller, USN	8 Aug 1945	15 Jul 1946 (1)

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Notable events involving Guadalcanal include:

16 Jan 1944
German U-boat U-544 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-west of the Azores, in position 40°30'N, 37°20'W, by depth charges and rockets from Avenger aircraft (VC-13) of the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal.

9 Apr 1944
German U-boat U-515 was sunk at 1510hrs on 9 April 1944 in the mid-Atlantic north of Madeira in position 34°35'N, 19°18'W, by rockets from 4 Avenger and Wildcat aircraft (VC-58) of the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal and depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Pope, USS Pillsbury, USS Chatelain and USS Flaherty.

10 Apr 1944
German U-boat U-68 was sunk north-west of Madeira, Portugal, in position 33°24'N, 18°59'W, by depth charges and rockets from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (VC-58).

4 Jun 1944
German U-boat U-505 was captured at sea west of Africa by ships and Wildcat aircraft of the US Navy task force 22.3, escort carrier USS Guadalcanal and the destroyer escorts USS Pillsbury, USS Chatelain, USS Flaherty, USS Jenks and USS Pope.