USS Intrepid CV-11 - Original B&W Photograph in Colorado Springs, Colorado For Sale

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USS Intrepid CV-11
Black & white original 8 x 10 inch photo of Intrepid underway. Some corner bends and yellow from age but to be expected from such an old photograph.
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August xxxx, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early xxxxs as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed "the Fighting I", while her often ill-luck and the time spent in dry dock for repairs earned her the nickname "the Dry I". Decommissioned in xxxx, in xxxx Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.