My uncle was on the Wasp in 1945 when it was hit by a typhoon. He was 18 years old and came home paralyzed from the waist down. He was struck by a beam. He spent a long time in the naval hospital, in Brooklyn, where he met his wife who happened to be his nurse. She was from Boston and did her nursing studies in Quincy where she actually watched the Wasp being built at the Fore River Shipyard. I don’t think he ever missed a Wasp reunion and his love for the Navy lasted his entire life.
Thank you for your post about your uncle. Here is about the USS Wasp (CV-18) that he was on, it was the namesake of the Wasp (CV-7) sunk in 1942.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(CV-18)