Photo #: 80-G-433507 USS Essex (CV-9) Fire on the flight deck near the starboard bow, after a McDonnell F2H-2 "Banshee" jet fighter crashed into parked aircraft during operations off Korea, 16 September 1951. Photographed from USS Boxer (CV-21), which was steaming ahead of Essex. Note other planes in the area, including a F9F at right, and plane guard destroyers steaming nearby. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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30 November 1999