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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97111 USS Essex (CV-9) "Marine Corps Recruit Depot band and huge crowd welcome the aircraft carrier USS Essex at San Diego, Tuesday morning." Photograph and caption released by Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet, Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, under date of 25 March 1952. Essex was returning to the U.S. from her first Korean War deployment. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 124KB; 640 x 675 pixels

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15 November 1999