Image: USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) underway in 1971 (NNAM.1996.488.062.023)
Description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) underway. Franklin D. Roosevelt, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 6 (CVW-6), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 29 January to 28 July 1971. This was the only deployment on which Kaman HH-2D Seasprites of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 2 (HC-2) Det.42 were assigned to CVW-6. One HH-2D is visible just behind the starboard elevator.
Title: USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) underway in 1971 (NNAM.1996.488.062.023)
Credit: Official US Navy Photograph USN 1157465, received in October 1973 by the U.S. Naval Photographic Center, Naval Station Washington D.C., available at Navsource.org; U.S. Navy All Hands magazine July 1983, p. 47. U.S. Navy National Naval Aviation Museum photo NNAM.1996.488.062.023.
Author: U.S. Navy
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