Photo #: NH 97298
USS Leyte (CVS-32)
Off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, while embarking Marines prior
to the "invasion" of the Panama Canal Zone, during
amphibious exercises in 1957. She has thirteen HRS and two HUS
helicopters of Marine Air Group 26 on her flight deck.
Photo was released by the Department of Defense on 2 July 1957.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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