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History of USS Independence The first INDEPENDENCE was a continental sloop of 10 guns, under the command of Capt. lohn Young. The second ship bearing the name of INDEPENDENCE was a 74-gun vesst launched in 1814. Until it was placed out of commission in 2 the second INDY served as a flagship and a receiving ship. INDEPENDEN number three lived a short life as a mem- ber of the Naval Ov eas Transportation Service. It was com- missioned in 1918 am lecommissioned in 1919. The fourth INDEPi DENCE, one of the first aircraft carriers to be converted i im a cruiser hull, was launched in 1942. The INDEPENDENT hen joined up with the ESSEX and YORKTOWN in a strike aga. st the lapanese held Marcus Islands. Then on November 2i 1943, the INDY was attacked by lapanese torpedo bombers and took three hits in the starboard side, of which only one torpedo exploded. The INDY then re- turned to Pearl Harbor for repairs and was again ready for ac- tion by July 1944. Her first mission back in service was as a night carrier with a specially trained air group. Within a year ' s duration the IN- DEPENDENCE was assigned as one of the target ships in the atomic tests at Bikini Island. Damaged but not sunk she was towed to Kwajalein and decommissioned in August 1946. In two years of war, this ship won eight battle stars. On January 10, 1959, USS INDEPENDENCE (CVA 62) was commissioned at the Brooklyn, New York, Naval Shipyard. Offi- cials presiding at the ceremony included the Honorable Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of the Navy, and Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations. Capt. Rhodam Y. McElroy read his orders and was the first commanding officer to assume command of the aircraft carrier INDEPENDENCE After the ceremonies, congratulations came from countries throughout the world and from leaders of foreign nations. The most remembered of these congratulations was a telegram and gift, a silver coffee service, from the citizens of Independence, Iowa, population 4.865. In 1962, INDEPENDENCE was ordered to the Cuban coast- line by President [ohn F. Kennedy as part of the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1964, the ship broke almost all of its own aircraft opera- tional records during a 217-day at-sea period that included over 100 days off the coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea. For
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