page_title: USS Essex (CV-9)
section_title: Recommission
hierarchical_section_title: USS Essex (CV-9) / Service history / Recommission
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) following her SCB-27A modernisation at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), in March 1951.
context_page_description: USS Essex was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in December 1942, Essex participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning the Presidential Unit Citation and 13 battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier, eventually becoming an antisubmarine aircraft carrier. In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, playing a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. She also participated in the Korean War, earning four battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation. She was the primary recovery carrier for the Apollo 7 space mission.
  She was decommissioned for the last time in 1969, and sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrap on 1 June 1975.
context_section_description: Following the surrender of Japan, she continued defensive combat air patrols until 3 September, when she was ordered to Bremerton, Washington, for inactivation. She arrived at Puget Sound on 15 September. On 9 January 1947, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve. Modernization endowed Essex with a new flight deck, and a streamlined island superstructure on 16 January 1951, when she was recommissioned, with Captain A. W. Wheelock commanding.
caption: Essex after receiving the SCB-27A refit  March 1951.
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