Kearsarge (CVS 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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A RECENT PAGE IN KEARSARGE HISTORY

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Waiter M. Shirra Jr. and his spacecraft, SIGMA SEVEN near Midway Island. Several months later she recovered Air Force Major Cordon L. Cooper and the FAITH SE F-.N capsule. One hundred years to the day after the original KEARSARGE sunk the ALABAMA, she be- gan her ninth Far-East cruise. Between August and November 1964, for her service as anti- surface and antisubmarine protection to the U. S. Seventh Fleet ships which had been attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats, the KEARSARGE crew was awarded the U. S. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Testimony to the competence of the KF3ARSARGE crew was given in October of 1965 when the ship received the Vice Admiral James M. Flatley Memorial Award for Naval Aviation Safety in antisubmarine aircraft carrier operations. 1965 also saw the 100,000th arrested landing of the carrier. The twentieth anniversary of her commissioning was marked by KEARSARGE on March 2, 1966. Had she been a sailor, she might have retired with honors and a pension on that date. But as a ship of the United States Navy, she spent the spring in the training operations, and in June deployed to Yankee Station, South China Sea, on her tenth cruise of the Western Pacific. The third I SSknKSlKCK. ling toward her tenth depl

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