Midway (CVA 41) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1962

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SAN FRANCISCO With very few exceptions, San Fjanasco is tne y night clubs, restaurants even some streets Midway ' s home. For six kring the period between WESTPACdep . Bagdad-by-the-Bay. That months we were able to explore the enmess var y we were unable to see more new Places can only be jiame . the ones we went to so much that we went tack and back aga ing back one more time when we return home to. . .

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For the Midway, having made seven deployments to the Mediterranean for duty with the Sixth Fleet and four such deployments to the Far East for duty with the Seventh Fleet, in her relatively short life, it is a familiar mission, and one the Big M has always performed with distinction. Launched and commissioned shortly after the conclusion of World War II, when the carrier ' s importance in modern naval thinking, was an already established fact, the Midway was named after the famous and crucial World War II Battle of Midway ' , fought June 3-6, 1942, off the island of the same name, in which the Japanese were inflicted with a decisive defeat. After serving with the Second and Sixth Fleets intermittently for over nine years, the Midway on December 27, 1954, departed on a world cruise, ending, after an operational period of several months with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific, at the Bremerton, Wash. Naval Shipyard, where she was de-commissioned for the purpose of extensive and pro-longed overhaul and modernization. Two years later, on September 30, 1957, a new Midway was recommissioned, ready soon to take her place with the operating Fleets as a carrier fully capable of embarking the Navy ' s latest and fastest jets. The Midway emerged from Bremerton as a 62,000-ton vessel, as against her original 45,000 tons, due to a completely revamped structure. Further, the new Midway had a hurricane bow, an angled deck, island structure modernization, three steam catapults, new-type arresting gear, jet-blast deflectors and the largest aviation crane ever installed on a converted ship. After post-yard sea trials and inspections, the Midway sailed to her new homeport of Alameda, California, where she is still homeported, and, after an operating and framing period with the First Fleet ofi the West Coast, the Midway, in August of 1958, sailed westward for the Orient on the first of her, to date, four such deployments. Smce this initial cruise to the Western Pacific, the name Midway has become well known m Japan, the Philippines and other places in the Orient, and ' , it is a source of justifiable pride to the men who have served on her during these deployments, that the name Midway is a respected name in her ports-of-call in an area of such vital importance in the Cold War struggle as the Far East. .--T ' , !



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THE LIFE WE LEAVE

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