File:USS Essex (CVS-9) underway with destroyers c1961.jpg

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Description Ships of the U.S. Navy Task Group 83.3 underway. Visible are the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) and the destroyers USS Miller (DD-535), the stern of USS Wadleigh (DD-689), USS Rooks (DD-804), and an unknown Fletcher-class destroyer, maybe USS Robinson (DD-562). Essex, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 56 (CVSG-56) was deployed to the North Atlantic from October 1961 to February 1962.
Date circa 1961
date QS:P,+1961-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Essex (CVS-9) 1961-62 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author USN

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22:12, 31 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 22:12, 31 March 2013813 × 411 (222 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Ships of the U.S. Navy Task Group 83.3 underway. Visible are the aircraft carrier USS ''Essex'' (CVS-9) and the destroyers USS ''Miller'' (DD-535), the stern of USS ''Wadleigh'' (DD-689), USS ''Rooks'' ...