Intrepid (CV 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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fiufetaniaotype. fo e t ' i - ' l CaPJ'5ai1i Spraaoeii assLu1ed ooonaoa of tnodiozrieozzgai in January We lm' afldfserved as ner Coizaanding Gfficer until he was ordered to I. T2,i1f'S11'G training school at Pensacola, Florl -A, + S gi . . - UPUII completion of flight training, ' Q - cogqiozxaln . 4 x Cagtain Thomas L. Sprague, U. S. Navy During the course of a 29 year Naval career, Captain Sprague 'Q ommanded three other vessels and has held resoonsible posit.. if has c VI -1' I 0 A Q ions in the naval air ozcganizatinn. ' - 51 After graduating from the lfaval .academy at Annaiuolis in June, - , E if 1917, no reported for duty on the U.s.s. CL' minion onion, at that .. t'1e was engafed in overseas convoy duty. n Q S a Us , O ,. In 1918, Captain Sprague was ordered to the U.S.S. 1102-ITGOIIRY for conmissioning and fitting out duty and for duty aboard as engineering offioer when commissioned. The :3o:ff1'ec1:ga'f, a doo- lrwer of izoo sooo, was ooo, of one first of one flush declf: type . ' 'V d. She was employed and was built in the I-.ewgort 2-Tens snipyar l e f l 25 inoverseas conveying of fast. transportsof the Leviathan and o, f . K , V. if' i 'da in the late months a i in 1221, he reiiibfted for S-'Fit-H6 to the staff of the Commander, All' Voice' Paolflc ee. . Appendix I, 935551. A

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.,...,.--... -,...... .. D' F1 .L.:,R.L .LgiJ..a.'.b Apgendices Short biography of Cagtain Thohas L. SQl85U8, USN Short biography of Captain William D. Sample, USN Short bio raghy of Captain Joseph F. Boiger,IIiE Short bio raphy of Captain Giles B. Short, USN Recnrd of Air Group Six Record of Air Group Bighteen Reoord of I1TT?.3?ID AA Guns . -..nf ..,, .4- . .5 .'.' . H' ' 4, l W. . . , g . , , .5 ' i gil .gnQj' .I jj Jul 1

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is assistant air officer. Short1y'aftermards, he be later assigned to Aircraft Observation Squadron rwo This on, equiped with the old DH type airplanes, was the first tm employed for air spotting of surface 5unfire. Returning to Pensacola in 1923, Captain Sgrague tgok congand squadron one, and later becane senior souadron conhander in charg the flight school. A In 1926, he served aboard the U.S.S. K.2YLaYD as senior aviator In 1928 he was assigned to the Taval Air Station, San Diego, Structural and Engineer Officer. As Coinanding, Officer of Scouting, Squadron 6, Captain Sprague eturned to sea duty in 1931. In 1932 he becsrxe co.gn,-ander of the omnser Wing with additional duty on the staff of Rear Adniral 'illian Ii. Standley, then Commander Cruisers U. S. Fleet. A two year period, beainning, in 1931, at the fav? Yard, P11118- nt of the aeronautical Engineering Labora- 6 Slghia, as Superintende Dry was followed by his reporting to the U.S.S. SARATOGA in 193 cane air officer the same vessel. is In 1936, Captain Sprague reported to the U.S.3. LAKGLEY as T v A 'H lsator. W 'Returning to ?ensacola for the third tiige, he assumed duties l.f5Superiarendenth. of Aviation Traininls in 1937- DUI' this Period un ,gh ' 1. W z ,- gs, .V ' ,z , Wi? A . .' ' ,, . I - 74:-tg' T 2 II' 4'