Photo #: 80-G-21925 USS Memphis (CL-13) A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft is lowered onto the cruiser's starboard catapult, after recovery, circa early 1942. Note crewmen wearing tropical white uniforms, searchlights alongside smokestacks, 3"/50 anti-aircraft guns in front of the catapult and .50 caliber machine guns behind it. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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16 April 2001