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Navy recognized the potential value that flight would have in naval operations. This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS INTREPID. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

See full list on navysite. By racing her port screw and idling her starboard engine, Captain Sprague kept her on course until two days later strong winds swung her back and forth and tended to weathercock her with her bow pointed toward Tokyo. At this point the crew fashioned a jury-rig sail of hatch covers and scrap canvas which swung INTREPID about and held her on course. The next day her fast carrier task force steamed west toward the southern Philippines to strike airfields on Mindanao and September.

Then, after raids on bases in the Visayan Sea through September, she returned to the Palaus September to support Marines in overcoming fanatical opposition from hillside caves and mangrove swamps on Peleliu. During the next four years INTREPID alternated Mediterranean deployments with operations along the Atlantic coast of the United States and exercises in the Caribbean.

Late in February she interrupted these operations to join a sea hunt for Venezuelan freighter, ANZOÁTEGUI whose mutinous second mate had led a group of pro-Castro terrorists in hijacking the vessel. INTREPID operated along the Atlantic Coast for the next year from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean perfecting her anti-submarine techniques. While in the Mediterranean, INTREPID aided in the surveillance of a Soviet task group. Here her gallant pilots delivered powerful blows for freedom and scored what is believed to be one of the fastest aircraft launching times recorded by an American carrier.

Nine A-Skyhawks and six A-Skyraiders, loaded with bombs and rockets, were catapulted in seven minutes, with only 28-second intervals between launches. A few days later planes were launched at 26-second intervals. After seven months of outstanding service with the 7th Fleet off Vietnam, INTREPID returned to Norfolk having earned her Commanding Officer, Captain John W. Fair, the Legion of Merit for combat operations in Southeast Asia. USS YORKTOWN (CVS 10) as the flagship for Commander Carrier Division Sixteen.

Navy parried thrusts in four major actions collectively known as the Battle for Leyte Gulf. Two hours later, planes from INTREPID and CABOT braved intense antiaircraft fire to begin a day-long attack on Center Force. Wave after wave followed until by sunset American carrier-based planes had sunk mighty battleship MUSASHI with her mammoth 18-inch guns and had damaged her sister ship YAMATO along with battleships NAGATO and HARUNA and heavy cruiser MYOKO forcing the latter to withdraw. At daybreak the tireless fliers went aloft to attack the Japanese ships then off Cape Engano. Then American bombers sank her sister ship CHITOSI, and a plane from either INTREPID or USS SAN JACINTO (CVL 30) scored with a torpedo in large carrier ZUIKAKU knocking out her communications and hampering her steering.

On through the day the attack continued an after five more strikes, Japan had lost four carriers and a destroyer. Soon skillful damage control work enabled the flattop to resume flight operations. Within five minutes two kamikazes crashed into the carrier killing officers and bluejackets.

The next day, INTREPID headed for San Francisco, arriving December for repairs. In less than an hour the flaming gasoline had been extinguishe and only three hours after the crash, planes were again landing on the carrier.

The following day, INTREPID retired homeward via Ulithi and Pearl Harbor arriving San Francisco May for repairs. After training exercises, INTREPID was selected as the principal ship in the recovery team for Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his Project Mercury space capsule. Shortly before noon on Carpenter splashed down in Aurora several hundred miles from INTREPID. Minutes after he was located by land-based search aircraft, two helicopters from INTREPID , carrying NASA officials, medical experts, Navy frogmen, and photographers, were airborne and headed to the rescue.

One of the choppers picked Carpenter up over an hour later and flew him to the carrier which safely returned him to the United States. Early in September she entertained NATO statesmen as part of their tour of U. Early in the next year INTREPID began preparations for a vital role in NASA's first manned Gemini flight. Grissom in Molly Brown splashed down some miles from INTREPID after history's first controlled re-entry into the earth's atmosphere ended in the pair's nearly perfect three-orbit flight. She was at Yorktown, Va. A Navy helicopter lifted the astronauts from the spacecraft and flew them to INTREPID for medical examination and de briefing.

Later INTREPID retrieved Molly Brown and returned the spaceship and astronauts to Cape Kennedy, Fla. Between the wars, she was also active in training operations, life-saving missions (most notably of US astronauts), and anti-Communist operations. Then after raids on bases in the Visayan Sea through September she returned to the Palaus September to support marines in overcoming fanatical opposition from hillside caves and mangrove swamps on Peleliu. Two days later she went into full commission as a unit of the Atlantic Fleet.

Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet mainstay in preventing Communist aggression in Europe and the Middle East. The carrier got under way September for a 7-month modernization overhaul in the New York Navy Yard followed by refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay. Fair the Legion of Merit for combat operations in Southeast Asia.

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