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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97602

USS Tarawa (CVS-40)


Men of the Sixth Marines ride up on the carrier's deck-edge elevator prior to boarding helicopters of Marine Air Group 26 to take part in a practice landing as part of the 1958 Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Exercises.
Photo bears the rubber-stamped date 24 March 1958.
See Photo # NH 97602 (extended caption) for the text of the original caption for this photograph.

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

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1 May 2001