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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97658

USS Forrestal (CVA-59)


Enters port at Naples, Italy, circa early 1959.
Mount Vesuvius is in the distance.
Aircraft visible on deck include A3D-2 bombers of squadron VAH-5, F4D-1 fighters of squadron VF-102 and A4D-2 attack planes of squadron VA-12. This photograph was released by the Department of Defense on 19 May 1959. Forrestal's 1958-59 Sixth Fleet tour had ended on 12 March of that year.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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19 September 2001