New Paper Craft: WWII Essex-class Aircraft Carrier USS Bennington (CV-20) Free Paper Model Download

This paper model is the USS Bennington (CV-20), one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy, the papercraft is created by MON.

The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington (Vermont). Bennington was commissioned in August 1944, and served in several of the later campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning three battle stars.

Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an Antisubmarine Aircraft Carrier (CVS). In her second career, she spent most of her time in the Pacific, earning five battle stars for action during the Vietnam War. She served as the recovery ship for the Apollo 4 space mission. She was decommissioned in 1970, and sold to be scrapped in India in 1994. For more information please click here.

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