Caption: USS Intrepid (CVA-11): Gemini 3 spacecraft being hoisted on board 23 March 1965 after a three-orbit mission by Astronauts Grissom and Young. As Intrepid's planes flew missions in support of the Leyte landings 20 October 1944, Japan's Navy, desperately striving to hold the Philippines, was converging on Leyte Gulf from three directions. More @Wikipedia
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