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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-298609

USS Wasp (CV-18)


Flight deck crews prepare to load a Mark XIII torpedo on a TBM aircraft, during strikes in the Luzon-Formosa area, 13 October 1944.
Note plywood shrouds on the torpedo's fins and nose.
Plane at right is an F6F, others visible are TBMs.

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

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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5 March 2001