Kearsarge (CVA 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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'-nip-a-9. CDR H. V. LADLEY Front row Cleft to rightj: CWO M.N. Frey, l.t E. Phillips, Cdr R.W. Kimbrel, Cdr H.V. Ladley, Lt D.G. Sutherland, Lt CH. McMakin. Back rowflelt to rightj: Lt W. Eckhofi, Lt R.K. Billings, WO H.L. Pace, WO W.L. Kurtz. lO4 A floating airfield they call me. A floating airfield, yes, but even more than that: l am an airfield that travels nearly forty miles an hour, ranging many thousands of miles from home. l must be able to sustain myself and my aircraft without outside assistance. The men of the Air Department do the work most closely associated with the support of my embarked squadrons and detachments. They supply the materiel and the facilities that keep my planes flying-the fuel, the spare parts, the work shops, the men who direct and push the planes about my deck, the men who fire them off the catapults and the men who halt them with arresting wires when they return.