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3 f - ,J 51 a- 'pq f r-., 1- iv HMQ--'lt' ev J-'ww' H5 'v-Us '24 1 . . l 1 , BE , Her maiden voyage After two years ln the New York Ship yard undergoing complete overhaul and conversion, the USS HORNET CVA 12 steams down the East River. This was her first mile but far from her last A big day ln the lives of all of us and of our ship We stood there at Flight Deck Parade and watched the small tugs pufling and straining to move us and then escorted us down the East River Seemlng to look as proud of being with us as we were to be making this first trip. Slowly the Brooklyn Naval Ship yard faded around the bend in the East River-The HORNET, a star boarder there for two years was leav ing-A tribute to the en lll9f'l'lll0' skill of modern naval slup building The usually blase New Yorkers stood on the bridges and stared in wonder as this mightv ship barely scraped under the towering bridges connect A ing Brooklyn and Manhattan Under way at last. 1-+,4f-ff I1-V? -Q12 131f77 n E'ffiT Q'i- N ' ' ' N
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The SWEAT, during that first Captain's Inspection - braced and polished, we stood stifily at attention while closer and closer came the Inspection Party. And then it was over. BLOOD donors filled Hangar Bay Number One. In response to the campaign, the HOR- NET men showed their will- ingness to aid their fellow fighting men and gave a record amount of blood. CHEERS of the NATO coun- tries represented were heard around the world following a North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation dinner aboard the HORNET. Mrs. Robert Patterson, Admiral Lyndc McCormick, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, His Excellency A. D. P. Heeney, Ambassador of Canada, The Honorable Livingstone T. Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.
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