Photo #: 80-G-7085 USS Wasp (CV-7) Launching officer, Lieutenant David McCampbell, USN, gets the ready signal from the pilot of a British Royal Air Force "Spitfire", just before it took off for Malta, 9 May 1942. This was Wasp's second Malta reinforcement mission. Note deck crewmen holding the plane back. A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" is in the background. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Image Posted 3 December 2008
Edited and reposted 2 October 2009