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M-...r Reading from top to bottom: Leaving Frisco. Sanga mon making turn and colliding with Suwannee. . .. .,,w.,,,,.wV,Mmc.. ,.,..i.-Y ,,.,.,. . , ., ,..
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THE 5 ANNEE TH K5 I was once a modern oil tanker called the SS MARKAY. I was built in 1-939. VVhen 1941 rolled around, the Navy, as Dart of its expansion program, took me over for a fleet oiler. A0-33 was my designation, RI3' new name was SUVVANNEE. It comes from the southern river celebrated in Stephen Fosters song, THE OLD FOLKS AT I-IOHIE. In the 6 months following my commissioning, July 26, 1941, I steamed 38,000 miles along the Atlantic coast, in the Gulf of Illexico and in making one cruise to Honolulu. I thought I was quite a traveler. February 20, 1942, at Norfolk, I was suddenly decommissioned, moved to Newport News, Va. and there, to my utter amazement, I was con- verted into an aircraft carrier! I was scheduled for completion late in October, IQ42, but some- thing, or someone, caused them to hurry me along so that I could be and was . . . commissioned on 24 September ,42. Air-group 27 and some green 16 me ,i R ,W .,.. H - 1-y --- :rush A-'21 shipls company hands boarded me and after a two Weeks shakedown cruise, I was off to War! I Went right into the thick of the long heralded second front in the vicinity of Casablanca. Carrying 39 planes . . . an unprecendented load for a CVE . . . my men and my Airgroup performed like veterans. D Day was Sunday, November 8, 1942. My planes assisted materi- ally in silencing both heavy shore batteries and the crack French battleship JEAN BART.,' lily seams almost burst with pride when I be- came the first CVE ever to sink a submarine. A flight of TBP' I d g s, e by my Lt. Comdr. Nation, sighted a fully surfaced medium sized Vichy French submarine and with depth charges gave it the works. To the East, General Patton's armored divisions were hammering While U, S. battleships and cruisers were hoisting in big ones from the VVest. SUVVANNEE planes were ox erhead The combination was too much
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