PICTURES -> 1960's - Pg. 5
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[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - Fred Cavalli, Jr.]
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1965 - Photo collection from 1965.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An F-8D Crusader of VF-154 launching from CAT 1aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An A-4C of VA-153 is being positioned on CAT 1 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An A-4C of VA-153 trapping aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An A-4C of VA-153 is being launched from CAT 1 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An A1-H Skyraider of VA-165 launching from CAT 1 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An F-4B of VF-151 trapping aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An RF-8A of VFP-63 is being launched from CAT 2 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - An RA-3B Skywarrior of the VAP-61 World Recorders launches from USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1965 - Several VF-151 F-4B's parked on the flight deck of USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - Unkown]
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1965 - Nice shot of an F-8D Crusader of VF-154 on CAT#2 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Jan 9, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway off Hawaii.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Jan 16, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway as she departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a Western Pacific cruise.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Jan 16, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway as she departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a Western Pacific cruise. Note the Arizona Memorial on the starboard side of the ship.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Jan 16, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway at the beginning of a Western Pacific cruise.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Jan 16, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway as she departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a Western Pacific cruise.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Jan 16, 1965 - View of the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) underway as she departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a Western Pacific cruise.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Jan 16, 1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 underway from Hawaii steaming towards the South China Sea in what would turn out to be the start of the Vietnam war and her longest deployment ever.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Mar 3, 1965 - Screened by their destroyers, USS Coral Sea (CVA 43) and the USS Ranger (CVA 61) replenish underway from the USS Mars (AFS-1), USS Sacramento (AOE-1), USS Platte (AO-24), USS Ponchatoula (AO-148), and USS Pyro (AE-24).
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Mar 24, 1965 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) steams past USS Ranger (CVA-61) in the South China Sea, 24 March 1965, during the early days of the air campaign against North Vietnam. Aircraft in the foreground is a North American RA-5C Vigilante reconaissance plane (Bureau # 149313).
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Mar 24, 1965 - Pilots of Attack Squadron 153 walk across the flight deck of the USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) toward their aircraft, during operations in the South China.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Mar 25, 1965 - CH-46 helicopter hovers over the flight deck of USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) as they operate in the South China Sea.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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May 10, 1965 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 conducting UNREP with USS Mount Baker AE-4 in the South China Sea.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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May 15, 1965 - The U.S. Navy stores ship USS Aludra (AF-55), center, is approached by the guided missile destroyer USS Cochrane (DDG-21), at left, and the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) for underway replenishment, during operations in the South China Sea. The Coral Sea, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15), was deployed to Vietnam from 7 December 1964 to 1 November 1965.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Jul 1, 1965 - An A-4C of the VA-153 Blue Tail Flies trap aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Oct 4, 1965 - A-4 Skyhawks fly over the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) to commemorate the 10,000th combat sortie flown by Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14 from the ship.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Nov 1965 - Crewmembers of the attack aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) line the flight deck behind a "331 days" sign, representing the 11 months the carrier spent in deployment to the Western Pacific. Aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 15 embarked, flew over 160 strikes, delivering over 6,000 tons of ordnance against military targets in North Vietnam and Viet Cong strongholds in South Vietnam. CORAL SEA steamed 105,000 miles in waters of the Western Pacific - enough to circumnavigate the globe four times.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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Nov 1, 1965 - The carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) passes beneath the Golden Gate Bridge upon entering San Francisco Bay at the conclusion of a Western Pacific cruise.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Nov 1, 1965 - Streaming a 973ft coming home pennant long, USS Coral Sea CVA-43 returns from a record cruise of 331 days.
[Image Source - NMNA - Robert L. Lawson]
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1966 - A U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider of attack squadron VA-25 Fist of the Fleet. VA-25 was part of Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) (tailcode "NE"), stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) during that carrier's deployment to Vietnam from July 1966 to February 1967. A-1Hs BuNos. 135356 and 137517 are nearest to the camera. VA-25's tactical numbers were NE-571 to NE-582.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - AN A1-H Skyraider launches from USS Coral Sea CVA-43 off the coast of Vietnam.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 underway in the Tonkin Gulf. A VA-22 A-4C has just launched from CAT 2.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - A U.S. Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk (BuNo 151151) of Attack Squadron 23 (VA-23) "Black Knights" is launched from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) for a mission in Vietnam. The aircraft is armed with AGM-45 Shrike missiles and LAU-3 rocket launchers.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - A U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider (BuNo 135275) of Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25) "Fist of the Fleet" is launched from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) for a mission over Vietnam.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - An F-4B of the VF-21 Freelancers taxis to CAT 1 for launch aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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1966 - USS Coral Sea conducts an UNREP in the Tonkin Gulf. Note the musicians on the elevator serenading the supply ship.
[Image Source - Michael O'Brien]
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Jul 1966 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) as seen from USS Perkins (DD-877) in July 1966, west bound at the start of her second Vietnam War cruise (29 July 1966–23 February 1967). Carrier Air Wing was CVW-2.
[Image Source - Michael O'Brien]
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Jul 1966 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) as seen from USS Perkins (DD-877) in July 1966, west bound at the start of her second Vietnam War cruise (29 July 1966–23 February 1967). Carrier Air Wing was CVW-2.
[Image Source - Michael O'Brien]
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Jul 1966 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) as seen from USS Perkins (DD-877) in July 1966, west bound at the start of her second Vietnam War cruise (29 July 1966–23 February 1967). Carrier Air Wing was CVW-2.
[Image Source - Michael O'Brien]
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Jul 1966 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) as seen from USS Perkins (DD-877) in July 1966, west bound at the start of her second Vietnam War cruise (29 July 1966–23 February 1967). Carrier Air Wing was CVW-2.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Aug 1966 - A VAH-2 A-3B of the Royal Rampants launches from USS Coral Sea CVA-43.
[Image Source - NNAM - US Navy]
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Aug 24, 1966 - A member of the flight deck crew on board the carrier Coral Sea (CVA 43) takes a short rest during a lull in flight operations on board the carrier operating on Yankee Station off the coast of North Vietnam on August 24, 1966.
[Image Source - US Navy]
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Sep 28, 1966 - UNREP in the Tonkin Gulf with USS Coral Sea CVA-43, USS Castor AKS-1 and USS Green DD-711.
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