File:USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) underway with Task Group Alfa, in 1959 (USN 1043094).jpg

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English: View ot the U.S. Navy Task Group ALFA: Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke embarked.
The ships include the group flagship, the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front. Aircraft overhead include two four-plane formations of Grumman S2F-1/-2 Trackers and three Sikorsky HSS-1 Seabat helicopters from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based Lockheed P2V Neptune.
Depicted place Atlantic Ocean
Date 1959
date QS:P571,+1959-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q3250126
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USN 1043094
Source U.S. Navy photo USN 1043094

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  • 2008-07-05 21:04 Marcd30319 740×565× (88704 bytes) {{Information |Description='''Task Force Alpha:''' Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy [[William B. Franke]] embarked. Ships include the group flag

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U.S. Navy Task Force ALFA, 1959

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