[Hot Tabasco]

Although I’m a bit clueless over naming one carrier the Wasp (it was sunk).

I think it was manned entirely by white, anglo-saxon protestant sailors....

[GreyFriar]

Dear Hot—the WW2 Wasp would have had Blacks/Negroes/African Americans/ on board as mess attendants working in the galley, the only Navy occupation permitted to them, as well as Philippino sailors also working in the mess section. One such Philippino “mess boy” ended up running the White House Kitchen and the “mess” on the last Presidential Yacht in the 1960S and 70s.

Also, the first USS Wasp, was captured from the British in either the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812. Thus keeping her name in service.