![]() ![]() Intrepid participated in the Battle of Okinawa, a massive amphibious assault that would last nearly three months. ![]() Sixty-nine men were killed, making this attack the worst in Intrepid’s history. Ten men lost their lives.ĭuring action in the Philippines, two kamikaze airplanes crashed into Intrepid within minutes of one another on November 25, 1944. A gun crew of African American sailors, who usually served as cooks or waiters in the officers’ mess, courageously fired at the airplane as it crashed into their position. On October 29, 1944, a kamikaze smashed into a gun tub on Intrepid’s port side. Intrepid planes helped sink the Japanese battleship Musashi. The ship headed to Pearl Harbor and then San Francisco for repairs.īack in action, Intrepid participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, one of the largest naval battles in history. A Japanese air-launched torpedo hit Intrepid, jamming the rudder. In February 1944, Intrepid participated in a major offensive against the Japanese base on the island of Truk. The ship steamed through the Panama Canal to join the fleet fighting in the Pacific War. ![]() USS Intrepid (CV-11) was commissioned at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia on August 16, 1943. (Collection of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Flight operations on board Intrepid, October 1944. ![]()
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