USS Attu (CVE 102)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Casablanca
Pennant	CVE 102
Built by	Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. (Vancouver, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	17 Jul 1942
Laid down	16 Mar 1944
Launched	27 May 1944
Commissioned	30 Jun 1944
End service	8 Jun 1946
History	Decommissioned 8 June 1946. Stricken 3 July 1946. Sold 3 January 1947 for merchant use being renamed Gay, then Flying W. in 1948. An attempt to convert the ship for use as a blockade runner to smuggle military equipment into Isreal failed. Scrapped 1948-1949 at Baltimore.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. Henry Fahnestock MacComsey, USN	30 Jun 1944	Aug 1945
2	T/Cdr. Paul Hubert Ramsey, USN	Aug 1945

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