File:Aft flight deck of USS Essex (CVS-9) in 1963.jpg

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View of the aft flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVS-9). Essex, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 60 (CVSG-60), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from 1 October to 20 December 1963.

Visible are Grumman S-2D Trackers of Anti-Submarine Squadron 34 (VS-34) "Proud Tigers" (center foreground and left) and VS-39 "Hoot Owls" (right) and Grumman E-1B Tracers of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 12 (VAW-12) Det.9 "Bats" (center and left foreground).
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Essex (CVS-9) 1963 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author U.S. Navy

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current06:22, 17 June 2017Thumbnail for version as of 06:22, 17 June 2017825 × 559 (289 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Veiw of the aft flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS ''Essex'' (CVS-9). ''Essex'', with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 60 (CVSG-60), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the...