CVG/W and COMCARGRU's Air Groups, Air Wings & Carrier Groups

[Salvage Sailor]

COMMANDER CARRIER DIVISION FIFTEEN (COMCARDIV 15) 1950's

USS POINT CRUZ (CVE-119)

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 8/25/2018 at 8:46 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

CVG-5 Carrier Air Group Five aboard USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31) 1957-1958 WESTPAC, CDR. R.M. Bagwell, CAG-5 https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv31-57/123.htm

 

 

 

 

Carrier Air Group Five (CVG-5)

June 26, 1951 - March 25, 1952 aboard USS Essex (CV 9) - West Pacific, Korean War

5 1/2" Applique Bullion on Felt

 

7" USS ESSEX (CV-9) TF-77 X DIVISION Korean War

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Carrier Air Wing Nineteen

Indian Country (North Vietnam) 1972

aboard USS Oriskany (CVA-34) June 5, 1972 - March 30, 1973

The Two Red Stars Denote

Operation Pocket Money (the mining of Haiphong Harbor)

Operation Linebacker (the Christmas bombing of Hanoi)

Two U.S. Navy Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II from Attack Squadron VA-153 Blue Tail Flies and an A-7B from VA-155 Silver Foxes dropping Mk 82 227 kg bombs over Vietnam. Both squadrons were assigned to to Carrier Air Wing 19 (CVW-19) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) for a deployment to Vietnam from 5 June 1972 to 30 March 1973.  Official U.S. Navy photograph from the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) 1972-73 Cruise Book

 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

The short lived second CVW-10 (1986–1988)

The Wings only seagoing deployment was aboard USS ENTERPRISE (CVAN-65) in 1987 just before all of CVW-10's squadrons were disestablished due to the end of the Cold War draw down.

 

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Link -->> USS Lexington (CVA 16) WestPac Cruise Book 1961-62

 

CVG-14 'Minutemen' Gaggle Patch

USS LEXINGTON (CVA-16) WESTPAC 1961-1962

Looks like it was pulled from a flight jacket and then a scrapbook

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USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) Underway in 1991 with CVW-9 aboard

Arabian Nights Flying Club

CVW-9 USS NIMITZ (CVN-68)

Desert Storm WESTPAC 1991

Carrier Air Wing 9
HS-2
VAQ-138
VAW-112
VA-165
VF-211
VF-24
VFA-146
VFA-147
VS-33

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63)

CARRIER AIR WING ELEVEN (CVW-11)

South American Cruise August-November 1961

Maiden shakedown cruise and transfer to the Pacific Fleet

Around Cape Horn

[Salvage Sailor]

On 9/26/2018 at 9:18 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63) WESTPAC 1972 Vietnam Combat Cruise https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv63-72/index.html

Carrier Air Wing 11

RVAH-7

VA-52

VAW-114

VF-114

VAQ-135

VA-192

VA-195

VF-213

HC-1 Det. 1

 

 

This was the "Race Riot At Sea" cruise..... https://www.navytimes.com/military-honor/black-military-history/2017/02/28/race-riot-at-sea-1972-kitty-hawk-incident-fueled-fleet-wide-unrest/

 

 

The patch above came along with this one

 

USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63) A DIVISION Westpac 1972

 

The air wing's last Vietnam War cruise above (1972)

...and the following cruise

 

1973 - 1974 WESTPAC - INDIAN OCEAN

 

[Salvage Sailor]

CVWR-20 (CARAIRWINGRES TWENTY)

Established 1970-2007

 

The two Reserve Carrier Air Wings, CVWR-20 and CVWR-30, were established on 1 April 1970 followed by two carrier ASW group [CVSGR-70 and CVSGR-80] on 1 May 1968. This was a continuation of a program initiated in July 1968 to give Naval Air Reserve squadrons an improved combat readiness.

 

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Commander Carrier Group Six

Swiss Tex, 1970's