Photo #: 80-G-14548 USS Long Island (AVG-1) A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighter on the catapult, ready for take-off, 17 June 1942. Several more F4F-4s are waiting their turn for launch. All planes are from squadron VGS-1. Note that Long Island's catapult runs diagonally across the flight deck, from starboard toward the port bow. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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10 April 2001