1965 USS ORISKANY WestPac CVA 34 CRUISE BOOK Vietnam Korea Era MIGHTY O US NAVY

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1965 USS ORISKANY WestPac CVA 34 CRUISE BOOK Vietnam Korea Era MIGHTY O US NAVY
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) West Pac 1965 Cruise Book
US Navy 1965
Condition: This hardcover cruise book is in excellent condition with all pages tightly bound and clean. The cover is blue with a US Navy Seal. There is some evidence of wear on the cover but the book is in overall very good condition.
USS
Oriskany
(CV/CVA-34)
– nicknamed
Mighty O
, and occasionally referred to as
the O-boat
– was one of the few
Essex
-class aircraft carriers completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War.
The history of
Oriskany
differs considerably from that of her sister ships. Originally designed as a "long-hulled"
Essex
-class ship (considered by some authorities to be a separate class, the
Ticonderoga
class) her construction was suspended in 1946. She eventually was commissioned in 1950 after conversion to an updated design called SCB-27 ("27-Charlie"), which became the template for modernization of 14 other
Essex
-class ships.
Oriskany
was the final
Essex
-class ship completed.
She operated primarily in the Pacific into the 1970s, earning two battle stars for service in the Korean War, and ten for service in the Vietnam War. In 1966, one of the worst shipboard fires since World War II broke out on
Oriskany
when a magnesium flare was accidentally ignited; forty-four men died in the fire.
Oriskany's
post-service history also differs considerably from that of her sister ships. Decommissioned in 1976, she was sold for scrap in 1995, but was repossessed in 1997 because nothing was being done. In 2004, it was decided to sink her as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. After much environmental review and remediation to remove toxic substances, she was carefully sunk in May 2006, settling in an upright position at a depth accessible to recreational divers. As of 2008,
Oriskany
is the largest vessel ever sunk to make a reef (Wikipedia).
This book includes the history of the vessel, photographs, information about different deployments, and names of crew members in 1965. This cruise book belonged to BT1 (Boiler Technician Petty Officer 1st Class) Leland N. Hall U.S. Navy, Commander of Company 381.
Hall signed this cruise book in the front inside cover page.
We are selling other cruise books belonging to Leland H. Hall; please see our other listings! The USS Oriskany 1967 cruise book includes photographs and other ephemera belonging to Hall.
256 pages, 9.25" x 12.5"
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