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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-6678

Douglas SBD-2 "Dauntless" scout bombers
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of Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6)

Composite photograph of 9 planes in flight, with USS Enterprise (CV-6) and a plane guard destroyer below.
The original photo is dated 27 October 1941.
Note differences in ocean surface wave patterns between the upper and lower images, skillfully blended to combine the two photographs.

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

Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 595 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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9 October 2000