.' ' hm ig' k 'lk' ,N ,,. . . Todays Fighting I sports hurricane bow and angled deck raised a sign next to her, This Fighting Lady has a date in Tokyo - DON'T MAKE HER LATE! Returning to duty in July, she received at Eniwetok on August 15, 1945 the message to cease offensive operations . World War II was over! On September 2, 1945, Intrepid was one of the long line of ships steaming into Tokyo Bay- this Fighting Lady had kept her date! For the scoreboard, her three Air Groups accounted for 309 planes shot down, 495 dam- aged, 69 ships sunk and probably sank or dam- aged 215 enemy ships. ' Later she was placed out of commission and in reserve at Mare Island, California. Early in 1950 INTREPID was ordered out of reserve and sent via the Panama Canal to the Newport News Shipyard for modernization. She was commis- sioned an attack carrier CCVA-113 in June of 1954 and joined the fleet in October. Since then the INTREPID has operated with the Second Fleet off the eastern coast of the Americas and with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediter- ranean Sea. She has participated in both national and NATO exercises aimed at improving the Free World's defense readiness and good will lT!1'0g1'Q11T1 of the fleet. From 1957 to 1962 she has VlSltQCl Brussels, Belgium: Bridgetown and Barbadoes, British West Indies, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Cannes, Frances, Athens, Corfu and Rhodes Greece, Augusta Bay, Fuimicino, Genoa, Livorno, Naples and Palermo, Italy, Rotterdam, Holland, Oslo, Norway, Lisbon, Portugal, Barce- lona and Palma, Spain, and several cities in the United States other than her home port. INTREPID was known as the 4'Mighty I until her now arch-rival, the USS INDEPEND- ENCE, was commissioned. The 'iInde took over that title, which was soon abandoned in favor of Big I. Meanwhile, INTREPID,S Commanding Officer in 1959, Captain Edward Cobb Outlaw, claimed for the ship the title she holds today: The Fighting I. In April of 1962, INTREPID's attack carrier designator QCVAJ will be terminated. During the years that lay before her as Anti Submarine Warfare CCVSD carrier, she will uphold the out- standing tradition that the Fighting I has re- peatedly made for herself, the Navy, and above all the country she gallantly fought for ever since that commissioning day on August 16, 1943 when Captain Sprague took the first command and said Entrusted to us today is a fine ship. She has been honestly and skillfully built. It is now up to us. There is much work ahead . . . many prob- lems to solve before INTREPID will be ready. With your cooperation, loyalty and attention to duty, we will get on with that job. In April 1962 she will change from the Old- est and the Bestf' to the Latest and the Best .
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