She was the fourth us navy ship to bear the name. Modernized with an angled flight deck, enclosed hurricane bow, etc She was built in 1942 and was a key player in many victorious battles
She was the first carrier in her class, the essex class Decommissioned on june 30, 1969, the essex was stricken from the navy list on june 1, 1973, and sold by the defense reutilization and marketing service (drms) for scrapping on june 1. Carrier operations and attacks against marcus island, wake island, the gilbert islands, kwajalein, the marshall islands, truk, saipan, tinian.
The primary purpose of this invention. She participated in many major battles, survived kamikaze attacks, and was modernized several times. Uss essex was reclassified as cva 9 on october 1, 1952, and on march 8, 1960, became cvs 9
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