File:USS Essex (CV-9) leaving San Francisco, 15 April 1944.jpg
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| Description | The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) departs Hunter Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, California (USA), bound for the Pacific, 15 April 1944. Note the small hull number and her newly applied camouflage measure 32 design 6/10D. As Essex had just completed her only wartime overhaul, she did not receive any additional 40 mm quadruple mounts on the stern or the starboard side. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1983.046.010.003 [1] |
| Author | U.S. Navy (This image is part of an album of photographs collected by Captain Carlos W. Wieber during his command of the aircraft carrier Essex (CV-9) during 1944-1945.) |
| Other versions | Frame with caption ("View from starboard quarter as tug helps turn ESSEX for her sortie from San Francisco and her departure from civilization for many months") cropped. |
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