File:USS Wasp (CVS-18) with Anti-submarine TG Bravo 1961.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) in formation with destroyers and aircraft of Anti-submarine Task Group Bravo, in the Mediterranean Sea, 19 August 1961. All escorts are Gearing-class DDEs. The planes overhead from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) include ten Grumman S2F-1 Tracker and two Douglas AD-5W Skyraider. Two Sikorsky HSS-1 Seabat helicopters are flying just above the ships.
The destroyer on the far left is USS New (DDE-818), then USS Rich (DDE-820), in front is USS Robert A. Owens (DDE-827). USS Johnston (DD-821) is probably next.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph USN 1057640, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.053.001
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