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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive


Patch at left courtesy of Guy Dunbar (USS Coral Sea CVA-43 Association) Patch at right courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret) (bluejacket.com)

USS CORAL SEA (CVB-43)
(later CVA-43 and CV-43)

Photo Albums

Album of Joseph A. Wolfe, USN (Retired)

Mediterranean Cruise, 7 July–20 December 1954
USS *Coral Sea* (CVA-43) 102 Kb	USS *Coral Sea* (CVA-43) 370 Kb	A interesting photo of one of CAG-10's planes 66 Kb	AJ-1 Savage recovering aboard 100 Kb
AD-4W Skyraider recovering aboard 84 Kb	Launching F2H-2 Banshees, VF-62 "Gladiators" 108 Kb	Launching a Skyraider 120 Kb	Recovering a Skyraider 89 Kb
Launching AD-4N Skyraiders, VC-33 "Night Hawks" 123 Kb	F2H-2 Banshees, VF-62 "Gladiators" 142 Kb	HUP-2 Retriever, HU-2 "Fleet Angels" 123 Kb	HUP-2 Retriever, HU-2 "Fleet Angels" 113 Kb
AD-6 Skyraiders, VA-104 "Hell's Archers" 104 Kb	F2H-2 Banshees, VF-62 "Gladiators;" HUP-2 Retriever, HU-2 "Fleet Angels;" AJ-1 Savage, VC-9 "Hooters" 163 Kb	AD-6 Skyraider, VA-104 "Hell's Archers" 111 Kb	AJ-1 Savage, VC-9 "Hooters" 325 Kb
F9F-6 Cougar, VF-103 "Flying Cougars" 104 Kb	AJ-1 Savage, VC-9 "Hooters" 122 Kb	TBM-3 Avenger, VR-24 "World's Biggest Little Airline" 379 Kb	TBM-3 Avenger, VR-24 "World's Biggest Little Airline;" AJ-1 Savage, VC-9 "Hooters" 130 Kb
TBM-3 Avengers, VR-24—this Air Transport Squadron had a Detachment permanently based in Naples, Italy 136 Kb	TBM-3 Avenger, VR-24 "World's Biggest Little Airline." AJ-1 Savage, VC-9 "Hooters" (not part of the Air Group) in the background. 471 Kb	Launching AJ-1 Savage. 305 Kb	F9F-6 Cougar, VF-103 "Flying Cougars" 107 Kb
Underway replenishment 154 Kb	F2H-2 Banshee, VF-62 "Gladiators" 126 Kb	AD-6 Skyraiders, VA-104 "Hell's Archers" 113 Kb	AD-4N Skyraiders, VC-33 Det. 31 "Knight Hawks" 104 Kb
F2H-2 Banshee, VF-62 "Gladiators;" HUP-2 Retriever, HU-2 "Fleet Angels;" AJ-1 Savages, VC-5 Det. 31 "Savage Sons;" F2H-2P Banshee, VC-62 Det. 31 "Fighting Photos" 152 Kb	F2H Banshee fails to recover 333 Kb	AJ-1 Savage, Composite Squadron (VC) 9 "Hooters" (not part of the Air Group) 372 Kb	Launching a Skyraider 338 Kb
Launching AD-4N Skyraiders, VC-33 "Nighthawks" Det. 31 328 Kb	Recovering a Skyraider 350 Kb	Recovering F2H-2 Banshee 332 Kb	F2H-4 Banshee, Fighter Squadron (VF) 11 "Red Rippers," as an F9F-6 Cougar, VF-103 "Flying Cougars," is about to leave the deck 353 Kb
	Joe Wolf, originally from Pennsylvania, who took these photos. 315 Kb