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