United States Navy Patrol Squadron 19
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VP-19 was a US Naval Aviation Unit responsible for patrolling, detecting, tracking and (possibly) interdicting enemy submarines. The Squadron flew missions in Lockheed P-3A Orion aircraft covering the North and South Pacific and other theaters.
VP-19 was the first squadron of P-3's in Asia and in the Viet Nam conflict. VP-19 originally flew P-2V's and then about 1965 received the P-3's from Lockheed and deployed for 6 months to Adak, Alaska (one of the furthest islands out from Alaska, near Sibera, Russia) to test out the newly delivered P-3's in cold weather.
Vietnam mission: Operation Formation Star in support of the 7th fleet forces during the 1968 Pueblo Crisis (AKA the USS Pueblo Incident / the Pueblo Affair)
Stationed: NAS
- Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California
Unit designation active 4 July 1946 - 31 August 1991
- Moffett Field Historical Society Museum: link
- Lockheed P-3 Orion on Wikipedia
USS Pueblo Crisis primary source documents:
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