Photo #: NH 69774
USS Kearsarge (CVA-33)
Decommissioning party salutes the colors, as Kearsarge
goes out of commission for the last time, at Long Beach, California,
13 February 1970.
Those present are (from left to right):
Captain Frederick W. Zigler, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Inactive
Ship Maintenance Facility;
Rear Admiral Norman C. Gillette, USN, Commander Anti-Submarine
Warfare Group Three;
Rear Admiral William T. Rassieur, USN(Retired), former Commanding
Officer of the ship;
Captain Leonard M. Nearman, USN, ship's Commanding Officer; and
Mr. C.E. (Gene) Gallman, representing the Mayor of Long Beach.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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