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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-10151

USS Enterprise (CV-6)


An SBD "Dauntless" scout-bomber and five TBD-1 "Devastator" torpedo planes prepare to take-off from the carrier during operations in the south Pacific area, 4 May 1942.
Note launching officer making arm signals in the lower left-center. Take-offs averaged one every thirty seconds.

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

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13 February 2001