File:Task Group ALFA;0551010.jpg
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View ot the U.S. Navy Task Group ALFA. Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke embarked.
Ships include the group flagship, USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front. Aircraft overhead include two four-plane formations of S2F "Trackers" and three HSS-1 "Seabat" helicopters from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune".
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| current | 21:57, 15 January 2017 | | 740 × 541 (81 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | View ot the U.S. Navy Task Group ALFA. Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke embarked.<br> Ships include the group flagship, USS <i>Valley Forge </i>(CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS <i>Eaton</i> (DDE-510) at left front, USS <i>Beale</i> (DDE-471) following <i>Eaton</i>, USS <i>Waller</i> (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS <i>Conway</i> (DDE-507) at right front. Aircraft overhead include two four-plane formations of S2F "Trackers" and three HSS-1 "Seabat" helicopters from the <i>Valley Forge</i> air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune". |
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