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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-431289

Vought F4U-4 "Corsair"
(Bureau No. 81712),
of Fighter Squadron 791 (VF-791)

Makes vapor rings with its propeller as it takes off from USS Boxer (CV-21) for a Korean War air strike.
Photo is dated 6 July 1951.
Note small bombs under the plane's wings and flight deck distance markings. The "Corsair" is just passing the 500-foot point.

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

Online Image: 172KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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12 November 1999