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432 photos and 1 illustration tagged usskearsarge, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• cva33
• vf53
• usnavy
• unitedstatesnavy
• usn
• ship
• warship
• aviation
• navalaviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• lhd3
• militaryaviation
• northamerican
• naa
• northamericanaviation
• amphibiousassaultship
• usskearsargelhd3
• cv33
• waspclass
• landinghelicopterdock
• lhd
• amphibiousassaultcarrier
• fj3

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• SDASM Archives 425 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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F2H-3, 127516, VF-194, NC-203, USS Kearsarge, 1957

from SDASM Archives

• bigredlancer said:

  NOTE: All the 1957 Kearsarge aircraft have ATG-3 TAIL CODE of "NC"; not "AC"...

James Smith Special Collection Photo

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  The Cenotaph and, behind it, the (now former) Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cenotaph_(Hong_Kong) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Final_Appeal_Building

Eugene Rankin Special Collection

from SDASM Archives

• JeffSFO said:

  That banner is up there to celebrate that the ship in the photo, the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CV-33), was the recovery vessel for two of NASA's Project Mercury 1-man missions. Astronaut Wally Schirra's mission was the MA 8 designation (stands for Mercury-Atlas 8, the 8th Atlas rocket used in both test and manned flights) and his spacecraft "Sigma 7" splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth 6 times in early October, 1962. The capsule, with him in it, were hoisted aboard the Kearsarge before he got out. Astronaut Gordon Cooper's mission was MA 9, respectively, and he was picked up by the Kearsarge mid-May the following Spring after completing 22 orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean aboard "Faith 7", which the final mission in the Project Mercury program. Further reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(CV-33) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_9 ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630011968... ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630012071...