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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-284859

USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)


Rolling heavily and pitching in rough seas, while en route to raid Okinawa with Task Force 58, 6 October 1944.
TBM "Avenger" torpedo planes of Torpedo Squadron 51 are parked at right, with landing gear well-lashed to the deck.
Note "palisade" wind-break in elevated position across the flight deck, forward of the planes.

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

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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26 September 2000