Navy SP-5B Martin Marlin at Cam Ranh Bay

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02567
Title: Navy SP-5B Martin Marlin at Cam Ranh Bay
Description: Original caption: "A portion of the worlds largest airport, Cam Rahn Bay, Republic of South Vietnam, provides a parking spot for Navy SP-5B Martin Marlin from Patrol Squadron (VP) Forty. The Marlin will be replaced in mid-Apr. by the more modern P-3 Orion. VP-40 is the last operational seaplane squadron deployed to the Southeast Asia area." An American fighter jet floats on the water. The shore and mountains can be seen in the background.
Date: 1967, Apr. 16
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th; Seaplanes
Location: Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 11.8933; 109.1702
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F3
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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