USS Essex (CV-9)
Aircraft Carrier
Administered By : Schmidt, Eugene (Joe), MM2
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Unit Details

Strength
Aircraft Carrier 		 
Type
Surface Vessel 		 
Year
1942 - 1952 		 

Description
Hull number CV-9


Notable Persons
None
 
Reports To
Essex-class
 
Active Reporting Unit
None
 
Inactive Reporting Unit
None
 
Unit Web Links
USS ESSEX CV/CVA/CVS-9/LHD-2 Association
USS ESSEX CV-9 new website
125 Members Who Served in This Unit


 

  • Bacorn, Thomas, PO1, (1964-1968)
  • Bahr, Charles, SCPO, (1960-1994)
  • Baker, Frank, PO2, (1942-1945)
  • Battinelli, George, PO3, (1957-1961)
  • BEHRMANN, LOUIS, CPO, (1941-1947)
  • Brachvogel, Rick, PO3, (1966-1970)
  • Brillhart, Dave, CPO, (1952-1975)
  • BRYANT, WILLIAM, PO3, (1952-1956)
  • Callahan, James, SN, (1966-1969)
  • Conrad, Carl, PO2, (1943-1945)
  • Cunningham, Fritz, SCPO, (1960-1982)
  • DIXON, George W., PO1, (1953-1973)
  • Dusett, Richard, CPO, (1968-1989)
  • Edwards, Ben, CPO, (1950-1976)
  • Erwin, Michael, AN, (1958-1961)
  • Forbes, George, PO3, (1964-1968)
 
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  Unit History Detail
Date
 Jun 30, 1969

Title
Decommissioned


Content
The ESSEX was decommissioned on 30 June 1969 and placed into the mothball fleet at the Bayonne, NJ shipyard. On 1 June 1973, she was stricken from the Navy records and sold to the Union Minerals & Alloys Corp of NY for $1,660,000. On 01 June 1975 she Was removed from Navy custody and taken to the Kearny, N.J. Federal Ship yard and dismantled by the Union Minerals & Alloy Corp.
   

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