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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USN 1052379

"Beyond the Peaceful Sunset, A Shooting War"


Sunset scene on board USS Bennington (CVS-20), operating with the Seventh Fleet near South Viet Nam, 16 December 1960, during the Laotian Crisis. View looks forward on the flight deck, past parked S2F "Tracker" anti-submarine aircraft.
Other units deployed near South Viet Nam at that time included the attack carrier USS Lexington (CVA-16), several destroyers and a three-ship amphibious force carrying 1400 Marines.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1052379.

 

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2 April 2001