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1968 Press Photo U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Ranger in South China Sea

This is an original press photo. U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Ranger. Master caption. Task Force 77 is part of the United States Navy Seventh Fleet operating in the South China Sea. This task force is the forward element of the United States Navy whose air might has recently conducted strikes against North Vietnam military bases. Planes from three of the carriers in this task force, USS Ranger, CVA-61, USS Coral Sea, CVA-43, and USS Hancock, CVA-19, joined forces with U.S. and South Vietnamese Air Force units on February 7 and 11 and on March 15 and 19 in air strikes against North Vietnam bases utilized as training and staging bases for the infiltration of South Vietnam. These photos, showing some of the operations of the men, ships and planes that compose Task Force 77, were taken this month (March) in the South China Sea.Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated 5-6-1968.

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