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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-12435-A

Douglas SBD-2 "Dauntless" scout bombers


From Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6), based aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6), in flight over the Pacific, circa late 1941.
They are painted in the "two-tone" grey camouflage scheme adopted during the latter part of 1941.

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

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 625 pixels

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9 October 2000