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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-73394

A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighter


Is lifted on board USS Long Island (ACV-1) from USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1), at Fila Harbor, New Hebrides, 28 August 1942.
This plane was en route to Guadalcanal as part of the second group of U.S. Marine Corps planes to be based at Henderson Field.
Note that the F4F's markings appear to have been taped over.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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10 April 2001