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1960 - January 25. USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - What a Beauty !!! In pristine condition after a 33 month modernization, SCB-110A. Seen here coming out of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Comin' at ya! Another shot of the "new" Coral Sea leaving Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Stern, starboard side.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Stern overhead.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Starboard quarter.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Starboard profile.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - First car-quals after rework.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Ship's company spelling out CORAL SEA.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Allie Buckingham]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Docked in Vacouver at pier CPR Pier BC. If you look at the photo you might see that some of the antennas on the top of the mast are missing. The Coral Sea had to come through First Narrows at high tide to have enough water depth. As a result, the antennas would have struck the First Narrows bridge and had to be removed for the visit.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - A-1 Spad flying over the ship.
[Image Source - Hugh Hulse]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Two shots of the ship's company spelling out CANADA. The ship made a visit to Vacouver just after re-commissioning.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada parade down the flight deck of the USS CORAL SEA during the ship's visit to Vancouver, British Columbia. Over 15,000 Vancouverites went aboard the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA. 30,000 visitors had to be turned away because of the large crowd that gathered.
[Image Source - Mike Brown]
[Image Source - Seattle Branch of the National Archives - Tracy White]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Three great pictures of the ship at sea just after her modernization. Arriving in San Francisco. Starboard view, making speed.
[Image Source - Mike Brown]
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1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Port quarter view.
1960 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Stern shot underway.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1961 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Nice bow on shot.
1961 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Steaming in the Pacific.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1961-62 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - One of the first two WESTPAC's, Note the F3 Demon's, A-3 Whales and the WF-2 "Willy Fudd's".
1961-62 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - UNREP during one of her first WESTPAC's in the 60's.
[Image Source - Randy Kelso]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1961-62 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Leaving Subic Bay. British destroyers in background.
1960's - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Great UNREP picture.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960's - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Overhead shot.
1962 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - This one is at Ford Island. Evidently when the ship came in or went out the wives and girlfriends did the hula. They are the line of women you see pictured on the pier.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy/Sam Brown]
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1961 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Underway as an All-Attack carirer during the 60-61 WaetPac, A-1's, A-3's & A-4's.
1961 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - A familiar sight for WestPac sailors. Just clearing the Golden Gate Bridge.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Randy Kelso]
[CVA-43 1960] [CVA-43 GG Bridge]
1961-62 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Second WestPac 61/62.
1961 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Passing by Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1961-62 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - UNREP with USS Duncan and USS Bellatrix.

From Warren Luck:   If you take a close look you will see that # 3 elevator is missing and is covered with nylon safety netting. We lost it off of Hawaii during ORI. I should know because we were loading special weapons in the exact spot that an A3 is parked in the photo when the elevator departed. Got our attention enough to interrupt the load !!
1962 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Anchored in Hong Kong.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Jim Sloan]
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1962 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Docking in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960-63 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Very unusual compliment of aircraft. All birds are painted in training squadron colors.

Follow up from Marc Pradignac:
The air group on board is RCVG-12 (Replacement Carrier Air Group) or RCVW-12 as it was redesignated on Dec 20, 1963. This Air Group was in charge of pilots training and transitioning on the Pacific Coast. This Air Group was probably conducting carrier qualifications or on board training off the west coast (San Francisco).
[Image Source - Leslie Withrow/US Navy]
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1963 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Departing for 1963 WestPac, passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. F-3B Demon's launching off the forward catapults. Underway with CVG-15 embarked.
[Image Source - Chuck Bell]
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1963 - CVA-43 UNREP with AO-51 Ashtabula.
1963 - CVA-43 UNREP with AO-146 Kawashimi and USS Higbee DD-806.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1963 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Several shots of Coral Sea entering and leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1963 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 arriving for a visit to Sydney, Australia
[Image Source - Ron Sofge / US Navy / Leslie Withrow]
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1963 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Two F3 Demons of VF-151 fly over the ship. Note all three catapults in use during the launch cycle.
1964 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Overhead of UNREP.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1960's - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - A-1 Spad launching off USS Coral Sea.
 
[Image Source - US Navy]
  
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - First Combat Cruise to Vietnam. Shown here in the Tonkin Gulf getting replenished while underway, also known as an UNREP.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - At the Cubi Point Carrier Pier, Subic Bay.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Operatig off the coast of Vietnam as seen from the O7 level of the USS Ranger CVA-61. This was taken in March, just a few weeks after the bombing of North Vietnam had started.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Operatig off the coast of Vietnam.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Hank Vezina]
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - 3 shots taken on the 65 WestPac. Great shot of the island. Overhead view as the ship steams and wing fly's over. Coral Sea's homeward bound pennant broken out as she heads back from the longest deployment ever by an aircraft carrier.
[Image Source - David Herron, (overhead taken by Al Zink)]
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Bow on shot somewhere in the Pacific.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Task Force 77. Operating in the South China, March 1965. It had recently launched strikes against North Vietnam. Carriers present are (clockwise from bottom): Ranger (CVA-61), Yorktown (CVS-10), Coral Sea (CVA-43) and Hancock (CVA-19). The guided missile cruiser Canberra (CAG-2) is in the center of the formation. The destroyer screen includes: England (DLG-22), Gurke (DD-783), Rodgers (DD-876), Walker (DD-517), O'Bannon (DD-450), Somers (DD-947), Jenkins (DD-447), John A. Bole (DD-755), Higbee (DD-806), Buck (DD-761), Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) and Small (DD-838). This photograph was specially posed, and does not represent a normal operating formation.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Shown here entering Pearl Harbor 1965.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - In the Pacific off of Hawaii.
[Image Source - Randy Kelso]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Great bow on shot of ship in the Pacific.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - The Coral Maru tied up at Cubi Pt., Phillipines.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Randy Kelso]
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1966 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Just pulling away from Alameda in 1966.
1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - "Swinging the chain" in Hong Kong for Christmas 1966.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - Mike Brophy]
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1965 - [From - Mike Brophy ]USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - These were taken in Yokosuka in Aug 1966 after we busted a screw in the Gulf of Tonkin. Bent a couple shafts also. Story aboard ship was that we had hit a whale. My folks wrote that there was a story back home that a 7th Fleet carrier had hit a Russian sub. Ever heard anything pertaining to that?

[Follow-up - Karl A. Schnack] As to the drydock, I frantically searched for the pictures we took of the driver screw. It clearly showed the fatigue cracks in the brass. I remember our Assistant Maintenance Officer, CWO4 Waldgrin, coming down to the shop and telling us what the "straight skinny" was. This was while we were still in the PI. The divers had gone over the side to survey the damage. Material failure was the verdict, no whale, no Russian sub.
[Image Source - Mike Brophy & John Mittler]
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1966 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Departing for Westpac.
[Image Source -US Navy]
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1966 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Overhead of UNREP. USS Navasota replenishes the USS Coral Sea and the USS Buchannon in the Tonkin Gulf.
[Image Source - Tim Shalk]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Ship's postcard. Returning from her second Vietnam deployment.
1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Ship entering or leaving North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego.
[Image Source - Carl Jacobs]
[Image Source - Carl Jacobs]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Manning the rail for departure from San Francisco for the 6TH WESTPAC.
1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - About to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, outbound for the 6TH WESTPAC.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - W.T. Larkins]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Pear Harbor.
1960's - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Drydocked for repairs at Hunters Point.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Returning from Westpac.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Variious shots of "43".
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1967 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Tied up at Subic Bay.
1960's - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Bow on shot from one of her 60's WestPac's.
[Image Source - US Navy]
[Image Source - US Navy]

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1966-67 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Great collection of ship pictures from the 66-67 Vietnam WestPac.
[Image Source - Gerald Davis]
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New 1967-68 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Two great shots form the USS Lofberg DD-759 who was plane guard for Coral Sea in Viet Nam in late 1967 and early 1968.
[Image Source - Roger Kriegshauser]
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1968 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - This one is taken somewhere on the waters between Subic Bay and the gunline while my own ship USS BUCHANAN DDG-14 was on SeaDragon patrol. It was at a period just as we came off SeaDragon, about April or May 1968 and we were assigned plane guard duty for awhile riding behind Coral Sea.
1968 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Close-up of UNREP as seen from the supply ship USS Camden.
[Image Source - Ed Shaw]
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1969 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Stack gas.
1969 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 & USS New Jersey BB-62. Coral Sea along with the New Jersey just before we returned to San Francisco in 1969.  Shortly after this picture was taken, the New Jersey was turned around and sent to N. Korea.
[Image Source - Tom Pokora]
[Image Source - Tom Pokora]
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1969 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Docked at Subic Bay.
1969 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - Retuning from 1969 WestPac. Note flowers all over the deck. These were dropped from the Golden Gate Bridge as the ship passed under.
[Image Source - Tom Pokora]
[Image Source - Bob Springgate]
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1969 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - A Thing of Beauty!
[Image Source - CDR. Pete Clayton]
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