USS Intrepid; A History, 1943-1963
U.S. Navy: U. S. Navy, circa 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Total of 277 pages. Color front endpaper photograph of USS Intrepid. Rear endpaper has map showing USS Intrepid's travels. Color illustration at page 10. Bibliography. Contains information on Commanding Officers, Commander Carrier division Twenty, Origin of INTREPID Tradition, The War Year, and Recommissioned Attack Carrier. Also includes Bibliography. Includes several black and white maps, many black and white photographs of soldiers and commanding officers. Rear cover has some soiling. Extensive history of the ship from WWII to time of publication, followed by more standard cruise ship publication with rosters and information current to the time of publication. USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed "the Fighting I". She was torpedoed once and hit by four separate Japanese kamikaze aircraft. From April 1966 to February 1969, Intrepid made three Vietnam deployments, with Carrier Air Wing 10 embarked. Mid-1966 found Intrepid with the Pacific Fleet off Vietnam. Nine A-4 Skyhawks and six A-1 Skyraiders, loaded with bombs and rockets, were catapulted in seven minutes, with only a 28-second interval between launches. A few days later planes were launched at 26-second intervals. After seven months of service with the United States Seventh Fleet off Vietnam, Intrepid returned to Norfolk having earned her commanding officer, Captain John W. Fair, the Legion of Merit for combat operations in Southeast Asia.[Decommissioned in 1974, in 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Cruise Books, USS Intrepid, Aircraft Carrier, Carrier Division Twenty, CVA, CVS, Task Force 38, Fighting I, Second World War, Naval Operations
[Book #79092]
Price: $450.00