High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS Franklin, nicknamed "Big Ben", was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy, the fifth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in January 1944, she served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning four battle stars. She was badly damaged by a Japanese air attack in March 1945, with the loss of hundreds of her crew, becoming the most heavily damaged carrier to survive the war. Movie footage of the actual attacks was included in the 1949 film Task Force starring Gary Cooper.

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