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Commissioned on 3 June 1945, Lake Champlain did not participate in World War II, but did serve as a transport, bringing troops home from Europe as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s, and redesignated as an attack carrier (CVA). She participated in the Korean War but spent the rest of her career in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. In the late 1950s, she was redesignated as an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was the prime recovery ship for the first manned Project Mercury mission (Freedom 7), the second unmanned Gemini mission (Gemini 2), and for the third manned Gemini (Gemini 5) space mission. Lake Champlain had a unique modernization history. She was the only Essex-class ship to receive the SCB-27 conversion which was a rebuild of the superstructure, flight deck and other features but without also receiving the SCB-125 conversion which would have given her an angled flight deck and hurricane bow. Therefore, she was the last operational US aircraft carrier with an axial flight deck. Lake Champlain was decommissioned in 1966 and sold for scrap in 1972. - Wiki ⚓ Donations accepted. Please value the hours of research and work: https://www.paypal.me/shipsandmodels ⚓ Please follow us on our network: https://linktr.ee/shipsandmodels PD. All ships pictures taken from Internet, fixed and colorized. If you had information about the photographer, contact us, we will gladly put the name on the credits. . . . #igers #iger #bff #gff #potd #igerusa #igersamerica #ship #warship #vessel #boat #navy #picoftheday #photooftheday #instaphoto #instapic #instagood #photography #pic #usa #america #american #usnavy #aircraftcarrier