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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-14257

USS Long Island (AVG-1)


A Curtiss SOC-3A "Seagull" scout-observation plane landing on board, 17 June 1942.
Note bomb (or anti-submarine depth bomb) carried on the plane's centerline rack, and arresting gear wires on the carrier's flight deck.

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

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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9 April 2001