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USS Intrepid (CV-11/Cva-11/Cvs-11): From World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Museum Ship

USS Intrepid (CV-11/Cva-11/Cvs-11): From World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Museum Ship

Doyle, David

Hardcover

Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval, Book 22

Armed ForcesNaval HistoryWeaponry & Vehicles

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ISBN10: 0764363573
ISBN13: 9780764363573
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd
Published: May 28 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.16
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
USS Intrepid, the Fighting I, was one of America's longest-serving aircraft carriers. Launched during WWII, Intrepid and her crews weathered kamikazes, torpedoes, and typhoons throughout three years of heavy combat.
  • Decommissioned after WWII, Intrepid was recommissioned in 1955 and designated as an attack carrier (CVA), and in 1961 as an antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS).
  • In the early 1960s, Intrepid served to retrieve some of the nation's first astronauts during the pioneering Mercury and Gemini spaceflights.
  • In 1966, Intrepid made the first of three deployments to the Tonkin Gulf for combat operations with Carrier Air Wing 10 during the Vietnam War.
  • Intrepid cruised throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean in the early 1970s while patrolling for Soviet submarines in antisubmarine operations during the Cold War.

With her days at sea over, Intrepid first hosted the Navy exhibits during the US bicentennial celebrations in 1976, before finding a new home as the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River waterfront in New York City.

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