Mike Kanze wrote:
Mike Weeks,

Workups ashore by the Air Group are a bit different than readying the ship itself for deployment.

Yes it can be, But in this case BH had already been repaired; ie, by 7
SEP 1945, the date of the allocation list.

The former can happen (and in this case, apparently did) without the latter necessarily happening. In addition, an Air Group could be easily shifted to another deck, if absolutely needed.

One can go back in time to sci.military.naval, to the 1996-98 period to
see the various discussions which centered around Franklin and Bunker
Hill and "never repaired". g

As an aside, and FWIW as well as IIRC, I have somewhere buried in my
files of CVG histories/stories an item that states BH did conduct
flight ops following the war -- never deployed mind you, but she was
operational capabable. Again, FWIW ...

MW