File:USS Essex (CV-9) leaving San Francisco on 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.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1983.046.010.001 [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 ("San Francisco Bay, 15 April 1945 (note:1944!) ESSEX in her new war paint leaves Hunter Point Navy Yard for the most intesive warfare in history") cropped.

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