Wednesday 11/18/2009 4:25:14pm Name: Buck M Burns Homepage: E-Mail: buckmburns@aol.com Referred By: Just Surfed In City/Country: Belton, Texas Comments: Served on USS Essex 1952 to late 1955. Radioman RM2.

Sunday 11/15/2009 9:42:24pm Name: Donald Nowak Homepage: E-Mail: dontodawn@verizon.net Referred By: Search Engine City/Country: Erie,erie. Pa Comments: Assigned to the Essex from 1960 to 1962 may as a storekeeper. Discharge from Brooklyn Naval Yard.......

Wednesday 11/11/2009 2:23:17pm Name: Anthony Frank Iannazzo Homepage: E-Mail: frankiannazzo@usiwireless.com Referred By: Just Surfed In City/Country: Minneapolis, Mn. Comments: Just an update to my old entry in the guest book. I served on the ESSEX from Oct 1943 to April 1946. I was MM2C and I was in the A division. My duty station was the # 3 elevator machinery equipment. Our sleeping quarters were in the # 2 elevator room. No lights out there. The guys would play cards for hours. We had great duty there. serving on the ESSEX was a great honor for me. We had a great crew in our station. I had one very close call in AUG 1945 when the Kamikaze Japs were trying to get to our fleet and Carriers. Well, I was on flight deck at # 2 elevator shooting the bull with the #2 operator and watching our ships shoot down a few Japs. We were not at GQ at this time and I had to go on duty at # 3 elevator machinery room at 12:30 pm, so, I left the area and just as I stepped off the last step 7 decks down the ship received a hit of a Kamikazee about 30 ft. from #2 elavator and blew a 15 sq.ft hole in the edge of the flight deck and killed all the 20 MM gun crew as well as the 40MM gun crew below them. The fellow I was talking to got burned head to foot. I went down to sick bay to see him, but he was all rapped up like a Mummy and couldn't talk to him.He lived for 3 days and died. That was very sad for me, but at the same time I was thankful to God that I had to go on duty at that time. When the war ended shortly after that, during the surrender, the ESSEX and 2 Destroyers left the fleet for Bremerton Wash.where we retired the ship. I left the ship april 6 1946

Wednesday 11/04/2009 12:41:28am Name: JOHN S GILL Homepage: http://www.jsgill.net E-Mail: protechuslmp@yahoo.com Referred By: Just Surfed In City/Country: Hopatcong, N.J. USA Comments: served 67-68 ran #1 bomb elevator, I delivered the Apollo 7 cake to the hanger bay.

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