Ok thanks....i learned a lot about Navy fighter markings of the late 50s today
I made several mistakes. 1st of all. Never trust a single source
2nd Tailcodes of navy planes have not necessarily something to say about an attached carrier. 3rd i would never want to work in navy research center
In the late 50s navy was renaming their tailcodes. Therefore the CVG-1 Wing went from tail wing "T" -> "AB". Tailcodes starting with A should belong to the Atlantic fleet, starting with N to Pacific fleet.
CVW-1 was originally the "Ranger Air Group", serving aboard USS Ranger during the early years of carrier aviation. The air wing also operated aboard all three carriers in commission at that time - USS Langley, USS Lexington, and USS Saratoga.
From 1946 and 1957, Air Wing ONE served aboard nine different carriers, including the first "Super Carrier", USS Forrestal, during the 1956-57 Suez Crisis. Between June 1966 and February 1967, CVW-1 conducted combat operations off the coast of Vietnam aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1975 onboard USS John F. Kennedy, CVW-1 introduced the Navy’s newest tactical aircraft, the F-14A Tomcat and the S-3A Viking, to the Mediterranean.
Until 20 June 1958 USS Ranger was operating in the caribbean sea operating from Guantanamo Bay. 20. August went into Alameda (California) where it was comissioned to the Pacific fleet. Until end of the year flight training off the Californian coast, in Januar 1959 Ranger went to Okinawa, to train maneuvres with naval units of the SEATO-States. On 27. Juli returned to San Francisco and stayed in alert status.
I would figure then photos were most likely before 1959 because AB is Atlantic fleet. If they were stationed on USS Ranger or rotating at this time i could not determine in the quickness.
PS:Sorry for off topic i couldnt resist to make a little research of everything
