9 January 1952

"Well I have been house hunting again. I ran down a couple of leads, but came up with nothing....I just left the "Y" and came down here. I was watching Milton Berle on TV."

Korean War Years
During the Korean War (1950-1953), Puget Sound Naval Shipyard engaged in the activation of the reserve fleet, mostly landing ships and smaller vessels. But there were also six small aircraft carriers, called “baby flat-tops” and three large carriers activated for the Korean “police action”: the U.S.S. Princeton (CV-37), U.S.S. Essex (CV-9), and the U. S. S. Bon Homme Richard (CV-34). The workforce increased from 7,800 in 1950 to 15,300 in June 1952.