RH-53Ds fly over USS Nimitz April 1980

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US Navy

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https://www.dewiki.de/b/5f941

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Beschreibung:

Six U.S. Navy Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters of helicopter mine countermeasures squadron HM-16 Sea Hawks fly over the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in preparation of "Operation Evening Light" (Eagle Claw), in the Arabian Sea in April 1980; a seventh is visible on the flight deck. Six helicopters would be lost during the failed attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran on 24 April 1980. Several aircraft of Nimitz´ Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) are visible. In the foreground are two Grumman F-14A Tomcats of fighter squadron VF-84 Jolly Rogers and a LTV A-7E Corsair II from VA-86 Sidewinders. For "Eagle Claw" all aircraft would be painted with black-red-black identification stripes.

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Public domain

Credit:

US Defense Information System photograph ID DN-SC-82-00725 [1]; U.S. National Archives photo NN33300514 2005-06-30.

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