with CVW-5 embarked - Vietnam War - May 1970

with CVW-5 embarked - Vietnam War - May 1970

with CVW-5 embarked - Vietnam War - May 1970

with CVW-5 embarked - Vietnam War - 1970

with CVW-5 embarked - Gulf of Tonkin - June 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - Gulf of Tonkin - June 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - Gulf of Tonkin - April 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - Gulf of Tonkin - April 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - 1969

with CVW-5 embarked - circa 1969

Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, California - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-5 embarked - 1968

with CVW-21 embarked - March 1967

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1965

with CVW-19 embarked - 1964-66

with CVW-19 embarked - 1964-66

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1964

with CVW-19 embarked - December 1963-64

with CVW-19 embarked - December 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - November 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - October 1963

with CVW-19 embarked - October 1963

September 1963

with CVG-19 embarked - February 1963

with CVG-19 embarked - April 1962

firing its 5"/38 (127mm/38-caliber) guns - 1962

with CVG-19 embarked - October 1961

with CVG-19 embarked - March 1961

with CVG-19 embarked - 1961

with CVG-19 embarked - April 1960

with CVG-19 embarked - San Francisco, California - November 1959

with CVG-19 embarked - off Beppu, Japan - May 1959

with CVG-19 embarked - 1959

with CVG-19 embarked - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 1958

with CVG-19 embarked - August 1958

1957

manning her 5"/38 (127mm/38-caliber) guns - 1957

with CVG-21 embarked - circa 1956

with CVG-21 embarked - 1956

with CVG-21 embarked - 1956

F2H-3 Banshees (VF-213 / CVG-21) launching USS Bon Homme Richard - 1956

December 1952
redesignated CVA 31 on October 1, 1952


Puget Soud Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington - April 1952

Puget Soud Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington - April 1952

Puget Soud Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington - April 1952

Puget Soud Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington - April 1952

Puget Soud Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington - April 1952

March 1952

March 1952

March 1952

superstructure details - January 1952

with CVG-102 embarked - November 1951

U.S. Navy ordnancemen aboard USS Bon Homme Richard (CV 31) fusing 227 kg (500 lb.) and 40 kg (100 lb.) bombs on Douglas AD-3/-4Q Skyraider planes of attack squadron VA-923, Carrier Air Group 102 (CVG-102), before a strike on Korea on 10 November 1951. To the right is a AD-4W early warning plane ("ND-350") of composite squadron VC-11 Det. G.

with CVG-102 embarked - July 1951

with CVG-102 embarked - July 1951

with CVG-102 embarked - June 1951

with CVG-102 embarked - off Korea - June 1951

with CVG-102 embarked - March 1951

1951-53

1951

1951

1951

1951

1951

undated

moored at NAS Alameda, California - October 1945

Pacific Ocean - May 1945

Pacific Ocean - February 1945

Pacific Ocean - February 1945

Pacific Ocean - February 1945

at anchor - January 1945

1945

1945

1945

New York Harbor - January 1945

launching ceremony at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn - April 29, 1944

launching ceremony at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn - April 29, 1944