File:US Navy aircraft and a destroyer during an anti-submarine exercise in 1962.jpg

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Description A view showing the main assets of U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare in the early 1960s: A Grumman S2F-1S Tracker, with its magnetic anomaly detector extended, is visible on the left. Two Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat helicopters using dipping sonars near a smoke marker are visible in the center, and a FRAM-modernized Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer is visible in the background. The aircraft were from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59 (CVSG-59) which was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVS-20) for a deployment to the Western Pacific from 7 January 25 July 1962.
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Bennington (CVS-20) 1962 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author U.S. Navy

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