| Add a VP-56 Shellback Initiation | Add a VP-56 Deployment - Major Event |
| Month |
Year |
to |
Month |
Year |
Deployment / Event |
| JAN | 1956 | - | OCT | 1956 | Mediterranean |
| SEP | 1956 | - | NOV | 1956 | Mediterranean |
| MAR | 1961 | - | DEC | 1963 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
| APR | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | 6 a/c Rota 5 a/c Keflavik |
| OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | 5 Plane detachment to GITMO Cuba |
| OCT | 1964 | - | APR | 1965 | North Atlantic |
| MAR | 1965 | - | | | Shellback Initiation - 10 MAR 1965 - Atlantic Ocean |
| MAY | 1966 | - | NOV | 1966 | Sigonella Sicily and Souda Bay Crete |
| JAN | 1967 | - | JUL | 1967 | Last deployment of a P2V sqd. Rota Spain 1967 |
| NOV | 1970 | - | MAR | 1971 | Keflavik Iceland |
| MAR | 1973 | - | SEP | 1973 | Iceland |
| OCT | 1974 | - | APR | 1975 | Sunny Sig |
| JAN | 1976 | - | APR | 1977 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
| OCT | 1976 | - | APR | 1977 | Mediterranean |
| JAN | 1977 | - | JUN | 1977 | Mediterranean |
| APR | 1978 | - | SEP | 1978 | North Atlantic |
| SEP | 1980 | - | FEB | 1981 | Mediterranean |
| JAN | 1982 | - | AUG | 1982 | bermunda |
| JAN | 1983 | - | AUG | 1983 | rota/ lajes |
| JUL | 1984 | - | JAN | 1985 | Iceland |
| MAR | 1987 | - | JUN | 1991 | UNITAS |
