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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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

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    Image Posted 3 December 2008
    Edited and reposted 2 October 2009