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Bookmark or Share- CVE-116 USS Badoeng Strait HomeThis site is a historical archive record for CVE-116, USS Badoeng Strait, and is dedicated to the members of the US Navy who served on her. We hope that this site will allow families to share memories, stories, and images from that time, and keep those memories alive for future generations.
- USS Badoeng Strait - WikipediaUSS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy during the Korean War. She was named after the Badung Strait, located between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Nusa Besar, which was the site of a World War II battle in February 1942, between American–Netherlands and Japanese naval forces.
- Escort Carrier Photo Index: USS BADOENG STRAIT (CVE-116) - NavSourceUSS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) underway while operating Sikorsky HO4S helicopters of squadron HS-4, during exercises off the U.S. west coast, 27 July 1954. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History & Heritage Command (# NH 52414).
- USS Badoeng Strait (CVE 116) - Unofficial US Navy SiteUSS BADOENG STRAIT was one of the COMMENCEMENT BAY escort carriers and the first ship in the Navy named after the strait in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), between the islands of Bali and Nusa Besar where a battle between Japanese naval units and a Dutch-American force was fought in February 1942.
- Battle of Badung Strait - WikipediaThe Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19/20 February 1942 in Badung Strait (not to be confused with the West Java city of Bandung) between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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