The Image Gallery is where you will find Cowpens and other related images.  Last updated: 04/06/99.

  The Image Gallery is divided into four sections; Ship Images, Air Wing Images, Crew Images, and Miscellaneous Images.  Each section is set up the same.  There is an additional Navigation Bar at the top and bottom of each Image Gallery Section.  Use this bar to navigate between the sections.  The images are thumbnails of a larger picture.   Simply click the thumbnail image to view the larger image.  You can leave the Image Gallery at any time by using the Navigation Sidebar located to the left.

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A view of the Cowpens port side while at anchor.   Picture reportedly taken while in Tokyo Bay.  Closer examination of the original photograph shows what appears to be a fleet carrier in the distance astern of the Cowpens.  Historical accounts list two CVL's, Cowpens and Bataan, and two CVE's as the only carriers in Tokyo Bay at the surrender.  More likely this picture was taken at the anchorage at Ulithi Atoll.

A color image of the Cowpens submitted by Scott Anderson.  His Dad, Robert Anderson, served on the Cowpens from '44 - '45.

Starboard side of the Cowpens while underway.

Image of Cowpens as part of TF 50 off the Gilbert Islands in 1943.  Photo from Navsource .

Image of Cowpens from the U.S.Navy Homepage.

Cowpens image from the book, Aircraft Carriers of the U.S. Navy, by Stefan Terzibaschitsch.

The Cowpens hitting the water for the first time at New York Shipbuilding on Jan 17,1943.  Image provided by Jim Lucker.

Head-on image of the Cowpens (from the Battle for Leyte Gulf Homepage).

A view of the Cowpens starboard side flight deck facing aft from the island.  Photo taken around the time Typhoon Cobra hit the Third Fleet on December 18, 1944.

In the background you can see Mt. Fuji in this image looking forward on the Cowpens flight deck.  Picture taken in Tokyo Bay.

Another image of the Cowpens in Tokyo Harbor.  In the background you can see Mt. Fuji in this image looking forward on the Cowpens flight deck.  From the Collection of Brian Gentile.

This image shows an Independence class carrier steaming in formation with other carriers of the Fast Carrier Task Force.  Note the starboard list inherent to all the Independence class carriers.

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