Intrepid passes Ground Zero
The World War II aircraft carrier Intrepid returns to the Manhattan pier where it has served for 24 years as a military and space museum.
The Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum occupied the Manhattan space until late 2006, when it was moved for extensive repairs and improvements costing nearly $120 million.
Launched in 1943 as one of the Navy's then-new Essex-class attack carriers, USS Intrepid figured in six major Pacific War campaigns including Leyte Gulf, history's greatest naval battle, surviving five Japanese kamikaze suicide planes.
It later saw service in the Korean and Vietnam wars and was twice a recovery ship for NASA astronauts before it was decommissioned and mothballed in a Philadelphia shipyard — slated for demolition until rescued by New York real estate developer and philanthropist Zachary Fisher.
Photo taken from World Financial Center marina.
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Megan Green said (4 Oct 2008):
So this is where you and F. were the other day! Good shot.
