Task Force 77 operating in the South China Sea, March 1965

Task Force 77 operating in the South China Sea, March 1965. It had recently launched strikes against North Vietnam. Carriers present are (clockwise from bottom): USS Ranger (CVA-61), USS Yorktown (CVS-10), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) and USS Hancock (CVA-19). The guided missile cruiser USS Canberra (CAG-2) is in the center of the formation. The destroyer screen includes: USS England (DLG-22), USS Gurke (DD-783), USS Rodgers (DD-876), USS Walker (DD-517), USS O'Bannon (DD-450), USS Somers (DD-947), USS Jenkins (DD-447), USS John A. Bole (DD-755), USS Higbee (DD-806), USS Buck (DD-761), USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) and USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838). This photograph was specially posed, and does not represent a normal operating formation

1960 1969 Anti Submarine Anti-submarine Baltimore Bole Buck Canberra Convoy Coral Cruisers Destroyer Destroyers Directly Expeditionary Forrestal Gearing Guided Hancock Jenkins Leahy Midway Missile Nautical Navigating Organized Ranger Rippled Rodgers Somers Strauss Supercarrier Task Transit Yorktown

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