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USS Bunker Hill (CV/CVA/CVS-17, AVT-9) was one of 24 Essex Aircraft Carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War and was commissioned in May 1943.

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) at sea in 1945 (NH 42373).jpg USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) at sea in 1945
Career (United States)
Name:	Bunker Hill
Namesake:	Battle of Bunker Hill
Builder:	Fore River Shipyard
Laid down:	15 September 1941
Launched:	7 December 1942
Commissioned:	25 May 1943
Decommissioned:	9 January 1947
Reclassified:	CV to CVA 1 October 1952 CVA to CVS 8 August 1953 CVS to AVT May 1959
Struck:	2 November 1966
Motto:	Never Surrender, Never Sink
Nickname:	Holiday Express
Honors and awards:	Presidential Unit Citation American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (11 stars) World War II Victory Medal Philippine Presidential Unit Citation Philippine Liberation Medal
Fate:	Sold for scrap in 1973
General characteristics
Class and type:	Essex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:	27,100 tons standard 36,380 tons full load
Length:	820' (250m) waterline 147'6" (45m) overall
Beam:	93' (28m) waterline 147'5"(45m) flight deck
Draft:	28'5" (8.66m)light 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 4 × twin 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber guns 4 × single 5 inch (127 mm) 38 caliber guns 8 × quadruple 40 mm 56 caliber guns 46 × single 20 mm 78 caliber guns
Armor:	2.5 to 4 inch (60 to 100 mm) belt 1.5 inch (40 mm) hangar and protectice decks 4 inch (100 mm) bulkheads 1.5 inch (40 mm) STS top and sides of pilot house 2.5 inch (60 mm) atop steering gear
Aircraft carried:	90–100

While covering the invasion of Okinawa, Bunker Hill was struck by two kamikazes in quick succession, setting the vessel on fire. Casualties exceeded 600, including 346 confirmed dead and an additional 43 missing,

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) Media

• USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) is near-missed by a Japanese bomb during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19 June 1944 (80-G-366983).jpg

  Bunker Hill under attack, 19 June 1944

• USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes.jpg

  Bunker Hill's flight deck after the carrier was struck by two Kamikazes on 11 May 1945

• CV-17 deck as laboratory NAN1-68.jpg

  Bunker Hill as a stationary electronics test platform, 1967

• USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) being scrapped at Tacoma c1973.jpg

  Bunker Hill being scrapped, 1973

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  Bunker Hill underway at sea in 1943

• Second kamikaze hits USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) 11 May 1945.jpg

  The second kamikaze strike amidships at the island, 30 seconds after the first strike aft, on 11 May 1945

• USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) afire after being hit by Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945 (80-G-274266).jpg

  Smoke fills the sky as the fire rages on Bunker Hill on 11 May 1945

• USS Bunker Hill CV-17 Pasadena CL-65 1945.jpg

  Burning Bunker Hill with Pasadena giving assistance on 11 May 1945

• USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) moored at San Diego, California (USA), circa in 1970 (NH 78294-KN).jpg

  Bunker Hill moored at San Diego, California, in 1970

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  Bunker Hill arrives at Tacoma in April 1973.