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Collection: 00080 - Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: box04-file15-03
Title: October 1961: The Boston based aircraft carrier USS WASP, control center for operations of the Navy’s Task Group BRAVO, steams with other units of the Task Group during antisubmarine exercises in the Mediterranean this summer. Recently returned from a three-month deployment with the Sixth Fleet, this “family portrait” of the Atlantic Fleet sub-hunting team was taken during the tour. The ASP, Flagship of Rear Admiral F.E. Nuessle, Task Group BRAVO’s Commander, is currently undergoing overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Other units of the Task Group are Destroyer Squadron 36, based at Norfolk, (VA), and Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group 52, based at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station.
Date: 8/23/1961
Creator: United States.--Navy
Inscription/Marks: [Press release attached to photograph] UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET NAVAL AIR FORCE CARRIER DIVISION FOURTEEN Fleet Post Office, New York, New York. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Release No. 79-61 6 October 1961. BOSTON CARRIER HUB OF ASW TEAM - The Boston-based aircraft carrier USS Wasp, control center for operations of the Navy's Task Group BRAVO, steams with other units of Task Group during antisubmarine exercises in the Mediterranean this summer. Recently returned from a three-month deployment with the Sixth Fleet, this "family portrait" of the Atlantic Fleet sub-hunting team was taken during the tour. The WASP, Flagship of Rear Admiral F. E. Nuessle, Task Group BRAVO's Commander, is currently undergoing overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Other units of the Task Group are Destroyer Squadron 36, based at Norfolk, Va., and Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group 52, based at the Quonsot Point Naval Air Station. (OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH0 -usn- [mimeo caption on back of photograph] CVS-18-1569-(L)-8-61 TASK GROUP BRAVO. RELEASED IF PUBLISHED CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS:"OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH U.S. NAVY"
Summary: The Boston-based aircraft carrier USS Wasp, control center for operations of the Navy's Task Group BRAVO, steams with other units of Task Group during antisubmarine exercises in the Mediterranean this summer. Recently returned from a three-month deployment with the Sixth Fleet, this "family portrait" of the Atlantic Fleet sub-hunting team was taken during the tour. The WASP, Flagship of Rear Admiral F. E. Nuessle, Task Group BRAVO's Commander, is currently undergoing overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Other units of the Task Group are Destroyer Squadron 36, based at Norfolk, Va., and Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group 52, based at the Quonsot Point Naval Air Station.
Red ID: PH_I_145211 Image ID: 106249 Image Notes: 00080-box04-folder15-03

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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