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Her guns blazed hello . . . and good-bye to the past. vu V ,, , , , J , llwymw I 3 ESSEX arrived at Mayport 26 February l96O. As she entered the lagoon, her guns blazed and boomed a greeting, and her iets roared overhead firing aerial salutes. Her dramatic return symbolized to many of the ten thousand people waiting at the pier the end of her long and glorious career as an attack car- rier in the service of her country. lt was with her return from the Mediterranean deployme'nt that ESSEX was to assume a new role in the defense of her nation, as an anti-submarine warfare carrier. The blazing guns and aircraft were symbols not of an end, however, but of the eternal spirit of the Fightin'est Ship in the Fleet, which, faced with a future unlike her heroic and famous past faced that future with pride and with honor. At the end of World War ll, it was said of ESSEX by a ship operating with her . . . What do you mean, ESSEX class? She is in a class by herself. And that will always be so., , I ESSEX arrived at Quonset Point, her new home port, to take up her duties as an ASW carrier.
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Thus, a legend was born of a mighty carrier up The Fightin est Ship in the Fleet wrote its name in blooah in fire, in triumph. Such a name can be but an inspiration to the future. l It cannot be ' an epitaph to the past. We aletlicate the ship anew to those high hopes anal great spirit which brought anal will bring both fame ancl eternal responsibility to all who serve in ESSEX
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