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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-12905

Brewster F2A-3 "Buffalo" fighter


Rests in the flight deck gallery walkway after suffering landing gear failure while landing on board USS Long Island (AVG-1), off Palmyra Island, 25 July 1942.
This plane is from Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211), the last Navy or Marine Corps unit to operate the F2A in a front-line capacity.

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

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 590 pixels

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22 March 2001