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Essex-class aircraft carrierUSS Yorktown (CVS-10) - museum ship, Charleston SC. Some debate over whether she would be reactivated?
USS Intrepid (CVS-11) - museum ship, New York City. Destroyed by nuclear attack.
USS Hornet (CVS-12) - reserve, Puget Sound. Redesignated CV-12 and recommissioned, 1986.
USS Lexington (AVT-16) - Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Ship, Pensacola. Redesignated CV-16 and overhauled for combatant service, 1986.
USS Bennington (CVS-20) - reserve, Puget Sound. Not reactivated?
USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) - reserve, Puget Sound. Not reactivated?
USS Oriskany (CV-34) - reserve, Puget Sound. Recommissioned 1986.
USS Shangri-La (CVS-38) - stricken, Philadelphia. Reinstated to Navy List and recommissioned 1986.
Midway-class aircraft carrierUSS Midway (CV-41) - forward deployed, Seventh Fleet. On Indian Ocean/WestPac cruise at outbreak of war, recalled to Pearl Harbor and sunk by Soviet submarine off Hawaii, October 1985.
USS Coral Sea (CV-43) - active, Atlantic Fleet. At Norfolk preparing for Mediterranean deployment when war started. Sunk by Oscar-class SSGN in the Atlantic.
Forrestal-class aircraft carrierUSS Forrestal (CV-59) - active, Atlantic Fleet. Had just completed post-SLEP shakedown when war started. Lost to submarine attack in the Atlantic.
USS Saratoga (CV-60) - active, Atlantic Fleet. On Mediterranean deployment when war started. Became war loss.
USS Ranger (CV-61) - active, Pacific Fleet. Had recently completed year-long overhaul when war started.
USS Independence (CV-62) - undergoing SLEP, Philadelphia. Completed SLEP 1987, redeployed to Pacific, became war loss.
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrierUSS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) - active, Pacific Fleet. On Indian Ocean/WestPac deployment when war started. Damaged beyond repair by Backfire raid.
USS Constellation (CV-64) - active, Pacific Fleet. Had just returned from Indian Ocean/WestPac deployment when war started.
USS America (CV-66) - active, Atlantic Fleet. On North Atlantic deployment when war started. Became war loss.
John F. Kennedy-class aircraft carrierUSS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) - Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability, Norfolk. Under year-long overhaul which was a few weeks from completion when war started.
Nimitz class-aircraft carrierUSS Nimitz (CVN-68) - active, Atlantic Fleet. Returning from Mediterranean deployment when war started.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) - active, Atlantic Fleet. At Norfolk preparing for Complex Overhaul, due to begin in October, which was cancelled on the outbreak of war.
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) - active, Pacific Fleet. Had recently returned from Indian Ocean/WestPac deployment.
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) - under construction, Newport News. Commissioned 1986.
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - under construction, Newport News. Commissioned 1989.
USS George Washington (CVN-73) - laid down 1986, incomplete at war's end.