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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-437711

USS Essex (CV-9)


A sailor walks past two F9F "Panther" jet fighters as the carrier steams through a snow storm off the coast of Korea.
Photo is dated 18 January 1952.
Note: bombs on the planes' wings, loaded in preparation for a resumption of air strikes; and arrangement of tie-down cables between the wings and the flight deck.

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

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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2 December 1999