On August 29, 1976, the navy’s last S-2 Tracker, operating with VS-37 (shown here), was withdrawn from active service, after twenty-two years of duty with the Fleet.
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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