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Kadashan Bay

CVE-76 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

A small bay on Tenaker Inlet, between Juneau and Sitka, Alaska.

"A bay in Alaska."

Kalinin Bay

CVE-68 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

"A bay on the northern shore of Kruzof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska."

Kasaan Bay

CVE-69 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

"A bay in Alaska."

Kearsarge

Screw Sloop

Battleship No. 5 - Kearsarge-class battleship

CV-33 - Essex-class fleet carrier

LHD-3 - Wasp-class amphibious assault ship

"A mountain in Merrimack County, N.H."

Keneenaw

CVE-44
D07 HMS Patroller - Ameer-class escort carrier

Unknown

Khedive

D62 - Ameer-class escort carrier
CVE-39 Cordova

Persian, mans "lord".

"A British name retained. A title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the viceroy or governor of Egypt."

Kitkun Bay

CVE-71 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

"An Alaskan Bay on the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Island."

Kitty Hawk

APV-1 - Kitty Hawk-class aviation transport

CV-63 - Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier

"Named for Kitty Hawk, N.C., and for Kill Devil Hill, the site approximately four miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk, where Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine on 17 December 1903."

Kula Gulf

CVE-108 - Commencement Bay-class escort carrier

"The night naval battle of 6 July 1943 between an American cruiser-destroyer task group under Rear Admiral W. L. Ainsworth and a powerful Japanese destroyer force in a 5-mile-wlde gulf between Kolobangara and New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The task group sank one enemy destroyer and drove a second ashore, while Japanese torpedoes sank cruiser Helena."

Kwajalein

CVE-98 - Casablanca-class escort carrier

"The World War II battle of 31 January 1944, for Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands."

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