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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-373647

Grumman F6F "Hellcat" Fighter


Undergoing maintainance on board USS Essex (CV-9), which is at anchor off Saipan, 30 July 1944.
This plane is "Minsi II," belonging to the Essex Air Group Commander, Commander David McCampbell, USN.

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

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 585 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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    Image Posted 3 December 2008
    Edited and reposted 2 October 2009