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Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1967

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,gi If ABOVE: USS ESSEX - UNDERWAY ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE BELOW: WITH HER SHAKE-DOWN COMPLETE, ESSEX DEPARTS FOR THE SOUTH PACIFIC VIA PANAMA CANAL AND PEARL HARBOR 10 MAY 1943. 154

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COMMISSICNING 31 DECEMBER 1942 CAPTAIN DONALD B. DUNCAN RECEIVED THE SHIP FROM THE YARD. HIS COMMENTS LASTED BARELY A MINUTE, YET, THOUGH HE NEVER REITERATED THE PAST, THEY COULD NOT BUT HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY PREBLE AND BAINBRIDGE, BY PORTER AND FARRAGUTQ ECHOING 143 YEARS OF THE ESSEX LEGEND: IT IS MY INTENTION AND EXPECTATION THAT BETWEEN US WE SHALL MAKE THE NAME ESSEX CARRY FEAR AND DESTRUCTION TO OUR ENEMIES, WITH PRAISE TO OUR FRIENDS, AND BE AN EVERLASTING CREDIT TO OUR COUNTRY AND FLAG. ABOVE: CAPTAIN DUNCAN RECEIVES THE ESSEX. CENTER: RADM FELIX X. GYGAX ADDRESSES THE MEN OF THE ESSEX. BELOW: RADM FELIX X. GYGAX, COMMANDANT, NOR- FOLK NAVY YARD. RADM A. H. VAN KEU- REN, CHIEF OF BUREAU OF SHIPS. MR. HO- MER L. FERGUSON, PRESIDENT, NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING AND DRYDOCK CO. CAPT DONALD B. DUNCAN, COMMANDING OFFICER, USS ESSEX.

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