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...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
...there were. They belonged to Task Force 136, commanded by Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward, 53, a gunnery specialist who has developed into one of the Navy's most respected strategists. Under Ward were approximately 80 ships. In reserve was the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise. Navy P2V, P5M and P3V patrol planes, flying out of bases all along the East Coast and Florida, and from carriers encircling Cuba (see map), put the Soviet ships under constant surveillance within 800 miles of Cuba...
...Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after Admiral Burke set the operation in motion, Hale had sighted Novorossisk, raised signal flags: HEAVE
...reading your interesting article, I came across your picture captioned "Alfa Helicopter Pilot on Pursuit Exercise." This picture appears to have been taken through the nose station of a P2V-7F Neptune patrol plane. Having flown the latter plane, I am positive your picture was taken through what we call our "Poker parlor...
...volcanic origin. This is the region where Alaska and the Soviet Union stare face to face at one another across three to 55 miles of icy waters, and it was there one lonely morning last week, just about the hour that Molotov addressed the U.N., that a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune patrol plane flew on its routine radar patrol...