Carrier Roosevelt Gail's Down East River -- With the New York skyline as a back drop, the airport carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was commissioned on Navy day by president Harry S. Truman, sails down the East River, N.Y., Nov. 16, under the Brooklyn Bridge The carrier is leaving the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., for further conditioning at the Navy Yard Annex, Bayonne, N.J. Under present plans the ship will go on its shakedown cruise in about two months. November 16, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).