"Joseph Testagrose" <Joet5@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Hmm, April 1944, very full administrative load.
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_%28CV-9%29
"-- (23 February).
After this operation, Essex proceeded to San Francisco for her single
wartime
overhaul. Following her overhaul, Essex became the carrier for Air Group 15,
the "Fabled Fifteen," commanded by the U.S. Navy's top ace of the war,
David McCampbell. She then joined carriers Wasp and San Jacinto in
TG 12.1 to strike Marcus Island (19-20 May) and Wake (23 May)."
So, probably after overhaul, they filled her plumb full of planes
to take to Peral Harbor to help refill the other carriers.
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