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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-433492

USS Essex (CV-9)


McDonnell F2H-2 "Banshee" jet fighter (Bureau No. 124968), piloted by LtJG Keller, heads toward planes parked on the starboard side of the flight deck, forward, after clearing three barriers at 1823(I). The accident took place while Essex was operating off Korea on 16 September 1951.

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

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30 November 1999