File:SH-3H Sea Kings of HS-15 in flight in 1975.jpg

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Two U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3H Sea Kings (BuNo 149701, 149712) from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 15 (HS-15) "Red Lions" take off from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). HS-15 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the Nimitz for her shakedown cruise to the North Atlantic from 16 July to 24 September 1975.

Note that HS-15 used the tail code "AH" of CVW-16, although the wing had been disestablished on 30 June 1971.
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) 1975 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author U.S. Navy

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current11:00, 5 June 2016Thumbnail for version as of 11:00, 5 June 2016868 × 375 (214 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Two U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3H Sea Kings from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 15 (HS-15) "Red Lions" take off from the aircraft carrier USS ''Nimitz'' (CVN-68). HS-15 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8...