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File:Grumman US-2C Tracker is launched from USS Bennington (CVS-20), in the 1960s.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy Grumman US-2C Tracker target tug plane (BuNo 133358) is about to be launched from the port catapult of the anti-submarine aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVS-20), sometime between 1965 and 1968. To the right is a S-2E of Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 33 (VS-33)) "Screwbirds", assigned to Bennington´s Anti-Submarine Carrier Air Group 59 (CVSG-59).
Date circa 1965-1968
Source Scan from Dana Bell, Air War over Vietnam, Volume IV. Arms and Armour Press, London, Harrisburg (PA), 1984, ISBN 0853686351, p. 53, cites U.S. Air Force as source (USN?).
Author USAF

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