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Collection Summary
Collection: 00080 - Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Folder: 0046
Item: 01940
Title: US Senators Styles Bridges, Everett Dirksen, and Milton R. Young pose with US Rear Admirals Frank Akers and I.J. Galantin, and Admiral Robert P. Briscoe at the Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy
Date: 11/24/1958
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0080-Box02-file20-03 is replaced with 00080-0046-01940, 17680, "55" encircled, and the dated U.S. Naval Support Activity official photograph credit stamp ( photo by Bennett).
Summary: Standing beside the plane on which they were transported from the aircraft carrier Forrestal in the Mediterranean Sea are United States Senators Syles Bridges of New Hampshire, Everett Dirksen of Illinois, and Milton R. Young of North Dakota. The men have been on an official trip reviewing the activity of the Sixth Fleet. Left to right the men are identified as: Rear Admiral Frank Akers, Commander, Fleet Air, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH), Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-IL), Sen. Milton R. Young (R-ND), and Rear Admiral I.J. Galantin, Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, and Administration on Admiral Briscoe’s staff. __A typed press release from the U.S. Navy is accompanied by photo No. XSE 10798, and is transcribed here. "US Senators, returning from witnessing Sixth Fleet operations in the Mediterranean, meet with senior US Navy and NATO officers, upon their arrival today at the Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy. The senators flew into Naples from the super aircraft carrier Forrestal after conferring with Vice Admiral Clarence E. Ekstrom, Commander, US Sixth Fleet and Commander of NATO’s Naval Striking and Support Forces, Southern Europe. Left to right are: Rear Admiral Frank Akers, Commander, Fleet Air, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, Sen. Styles Bridges (R-ND), Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-IL), Sen. Milton R. Young (R-ND), and Rear Admiral I.J. Galantin, Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, and Administration on Admiral Briscoe’s staff. The senators previously attended the NATO Parliamentarians meetings in Paris as members of a delegation from the Senate Appropriations Committee. Speaking for the group, Sen. Bridges, Committee Chairman, said, “The teamwork spirit and efficiency which we observed during our visit thoroughly demonstrated why the Sixth Fleet is fulfilling so successfully its national and NATO roles as a vital element of world security.”
Red ID: PH_I_145159 Image ID: 106196 Image Notes: 00080-box02-folder20-03

Collection: 00080 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1930-1980

Summary: Images used in the Bismarck Tribune newspapers from the 1930s-1970s.

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